Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Palliolum

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. 

PALL'IOLUM. A diminutive of pallium; consequently, used in a general sense for any mantle of ordinary quality, small dimensions, of fine texture, adjusted and worn in the same manner as the pallium. Plaut. Epid. ii. 2. 12. Cic. Tusc. iii. 23.

2. (θερίστριον, probably). A square cloth, doubled and adjusted to the head, like a veil or cap; and worn as a protection against the weather, especially by invalids and females of advanced age, as shown by the annexed example (Palliolum/2.1), representing the head of an old nurse, in a marble bas-relief.

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  Palliolum/2.1