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#76982 07/26/02 04:47 PM
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I actually used pallia in a poem way back in November, Dr. Bill. I believe pallia were worn by high-ranking Romans. Not sure, but think so...

Didn't know the verb, however, "to cloak." Thanks for that. I don't think anybody uses palliate meaning to cloak today...


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How odd that we hear so often of the pilgrims, but not of the palmers.

My dentist is Dr. Palmer, but he doesn't live off charity, I'll tell you that!


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Emily stitched her poems together, so she's a sister of sorts of this Greek lady Pamphila....


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Dear Dr. Bill,

I'll be back in a little while to see what else you've "p" for "pleased" us with. Have to defrag my computer some more. It takes hours to completely defrag a computer.

Please don't forget:

pusillanimous
parsimonious
prestidigitation
piffle


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Just for you, WW, more than you ever wanted to know about pallia (for women)/pallium (for men). Not any sort of specialized garment, just made of different qualities for people of different ranks. It's a pretty standard piece.

http://www.ku.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Pallium.html


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Dear WW: You don't know what a piffle can be until you read this:

http://www.mbay.net/~jmd/1601.html


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Fiberbabe:

Thanks for much for that article. I read it to the end and, according to the article, the more elite Romans didn't want to wear the pallium at all and thought it to be somewhat barbaric and--ha!--Greek. They preferred togas as a mark of distinction.

Pallium used as: cloak, horse blanket, curtains, blanket to lay you down at night, even--biggest surprise--sails on a boat! The remarkable, wonderful pallium.

Thanks again for one terrific article.

WW


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Parasite (Greek, para sitos, eating at another's cost). A plant or animal that lives on another; hence a
hanger-on, who fawns and flatters for the sake of his food.


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Parlance In common parlance. In the usual or vulgar phraseology. An English-French word; the French
have parler, parlant, parlage, etc.- to speak, speaking, talk- but not parlance.



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Parlement (French). A crown court, where, in the old régime, councillors were allowed to plead, and
where justice was administered in the king's name. The Paris Parlement received appeals from all inferior
tribunals, but its own judgments were final. It took cognisance of all offences against the crown, the
peers, the bishops, the corporations, and all high officers of state; and, though it had no legislative power,
had to register the royal edicts before they could become law. Abolished by the Constituent Assembly in
1790.


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