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单词 laticlave
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laticlaven.

/ˈlatɪkleɪv/
Etymology: < late Latin lāticlāvium, lāticlāvus, < lātus broad + clāvus purple stripe. (In classical Latin the term was latus clavus.)
Roman History.
A badge consisting of two broad purple stripes on the edge of the tunic, worn by senators and certain other classes of persons of high rank.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > garment or dress > purple stripes worn by Roman senators
laticlave1749
1658 in E. Phillips New World Eng. Words
1749 W. Melmoth Lett. by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne II. 255 When I was first invested with the laticlave.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 30 The Roman knights who were distinguished by the permission of wearing the laticlave.
1793 A. Murphy tr. Tacitus Ann. (1805) VIII. 11 Pliny the younger shews, that the laticlave was a favour granted by the emperor on particular occasions.
1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iii. 100 A symbol more glorious than the laticlave of consuls or the diadem of kings.
in extended use.1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. 433 Angels who are in white, with laticlaves of gold.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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