Definition of "pilei" []

• Plural of pileus. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The religious ritual was followed by a public feast – reason enough for the Romans to throw off their cumbersome togas and to don lightweight dressing gowns and pilei soft red caps."
• "At multum mihi profuit, inquit peregrinus, carpum amento extrahens, e quo pependit acinaces: Loculo manum inseruit; et magna cum urbanitate, pilei parte anteriore tacta manu sinistra, ut extendit dextram, militi florinum dedit et processit."
• "Next to the Warden, on each side, are two figures in sleeveless copes, tippets and _pilei_, without hoods -- doctors in theology or degrees."