PALLA

In Latin, the long outer garment appropriate to Roman females of respectable rank. A part of it was thrown over the left shoulder, and hung down from the arm. It is particularly described by Apuleius. {Met. xi.) The palla was not worn by men, except some effeminate persons; although the long robes of barbarians are sometimes called by its name by liatin writers. There seems to have been a shorter palla. {Martial, i. 93.) [s. 888]