cloth Copy link Outline 1. textum (esp. in pl.)2. textĭle, is, n. (often pl.) • cloth: 1. textum (esp. in pl.): coarse c., t. rude, Ov.: precious c., texta pretiosa, Ov.: Mart. 2. textĭle, is, n. (often pl.): carefully made, fine c., t. operosum, Cic.: painting on c., pictura in textili, Cic.: Liv.: they use its leaves for c., ejus foliis utuntur ad textilia, Plin. (N.B. Pannus appears never to be used for cloth as a fabric, but always of a piece of cloth, a garment, etc.: v. patch.) Special terms: linen c., linteum, Cic.: Plin.: hair or sack-c., cĭlĭcium: Varr.: Cic.: a table-c., stragula vestis: a term applicable to any kind of cloth used to spread over anything.
CLOTH Copy link • CLOTHpannus: woolen cloth, panuus laneus: linen cloth, pannus linteus: lintea, plur. Stout cloth, pannus duplex. Fine cloth, pannus tenuior (opposed to pannus crassior). Cotton cloth, perhaps *pannus xylinus (Vid: CALICO]: hair-cloth, cilicium. A cloth manufactory, panni officina. Table-cloth, linteum in mensa ponendum or positum (Vid: Apuleius, Apologia, 308, 19), or only *mensae linteum. To lay the cloth, *mensam linteo sternere (after Martialis, 14, 138): triclinium sternere (to prepare the dinner sofas, after the ancient fashion). Cloth of state, aulaeum.