Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Palliastrum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PALLIAS'TRUM. An augmentative of pallium; the augmentative indicating coarseness of texture, and, consequently, an inferior article worn by the poorer classes, and certain philosophers who affected severity of attire. Apul. Flor. ii. 14. Met. i. p. 4.