Definition of "laticlave" [lat•i•clave]

• A badge of two wide purple stripes, worn by senators and certain other high-ranking people in ancient Rome. (noun)

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• "His under dress or tunic, was not of that succinct and narrow cut, which had so well become the sturdy fathers of the new republic! but — beside being wrought of the finest Spanish wool of snowy whiteness, with the broad crimson facings indicative of his senatorial rank, known as the laticlave — fell in loose folds half way between his knee and ancle."
• "The shoulders were padded, as if a jam pot stood there, and the waist buttoned tight, too tight for any happiness, to show the bright laticlave of brocaded waistcoat."
• "“Lay aside the laticlave and, clothing yourself in rags, come forward in this character.”"