paenulan.

a1400 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Trin. Dublin 75) 2 Tim. iv. 13 Penula [a1425 L.V. The cloth; L. Penulam; c1384 Douce 369(2) Penulam, that is, cloth of Romayns, or book, which I lefte at Troade..bryng with thee].

a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 238 The procutor ȝede to the market..and brouȝt home a foule cote and a schorte, which myȝt haue ben callyd penula, quasi pene nulla, it was as noȝt.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Pænula, among the Romans, a thick garment fit for a defence against cold and rain.

1846 H. W. Herbert Roman Traitor I. i. 4 The dress which this remarkable looking individual at that time wore, was the penula, as it was called; a short, loose straight-cut overcoat, reaching a little way be-low the knees, not fitted to the shape, but looped by woollen frogs all down the front, with broad flaps to protect the arms, and a square cape or collar.

1868 W. B. Marriott Vestiarium Christianum p. lxii We have abundant evidence in Roman literature of the uses to which the Pænula served, and of its gradual exaltation from a garb of slaves or of peasants to one which even emperors might wear in travelling, and which was expressly prescribed in the fifth century of our era as the dress of senators.

1915 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 5 167 He wears over his tunic a sleeved cloak like a ‘paenula’ to which is attached a hood (‘cucullus’) carried forward on to the shoulder and held by the left hand.

1969 R. T. Wilcox Dict. Costume 255/1 The paenula lengthened to the feet, a long, sleeveless cloak retaining the opening for the head. After changes of design, it became in the seventeenth century the Gothic chasuble.

2000 Times (Nexis) 2 Mar. Clergy vestments such as the chasuble were adapted from secular Roman day wear such as the paenula, an outdoor cloak with a cowl.