PALLA

In Latin, the long outer garment appropriate to Roman females of respectable rank. A port 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 Latin writers. There seems to have been a shorter palla. (Martial, i., 93.) [s. 894]