A badge of two wide purple stripes, worn by senators and certain other high-ranking people in ancient Rome.(noun)
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Use "laticlave" in a sentence
"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.”"