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PALLIATE

Volume 16 · 71 words · 1842 Edition

a name which the Romans gave to such plays as laid the plot in Greece, and required the performers to appear in Grecian habits. It is used in contradistinction to *toga*, in which the scene was laid at Rome, and in which the dresses were Roman. The word *palliate* is derived from *pallium*, which was a part of dress peculiar to the Greeks; whereas the *toga* belonged exclusively to the Romans.