Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Plagula

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. 

PLAG'ULA. Diminutive of PLAGA, but applied with the following special senses: —

1. A curtain or rideau, suspended like a net round the couches of a triclinium to keep off the dust or currents of air from the guests reclining at table, as in the annexed example (Plagula/1.1) from a bas-relief in the British Museum. Liv. xxxix. 6.

2. A curtain which could be drawn or withdrawn round the sides of a palanquin (lectica), so as to seclude the inmate when desired, or convert the whole into an open carriage. Suet. Tit. 10. and illustration s. LECTICA.

3. A breadth of cloth, two or more of which, when sewed together, make up a dress. Varro, L. L. ix. 79.

4. A strip or file of paper, several of which, when glued together, make up a sheet. Plin. H. N. xiii. 23.

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