In Ancient Roman regalia, a laticlave, or clavus, was a broad stripe or band of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators as an emblem of office, from which the difference of the tunica angusticlavia, and laticlavia. This ornament, according to some, was called clavus, `nail`, as being set with little round plates of gold, or silver.....
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• (n.) A broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators in ancient Rome as an emblem of office.
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Lat'i·clave noun [ Latin
laticlavus ,
laticlavium ;
latus broad +
clavus nail, a purple stripe on the tunica: confer French
laticlave .]
(Rom. Antiq.) A broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators in ancient Rome as an emblem of off...
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