[ noun ] a one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome <noun.artifact>
Toga \To"ga\, n.; pl. E. {Togas}, L. {Tog[ae]}. [L., akin to tegere to cover. See {Thatch}.] (Rom. Antiq.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga pr[ae]texta.
{Toga pr[ae]texta}. [L.], a toga with a broad purple border, worn by children of both sexes, by magistrates, and by persons engaged in sacred rites.
{Toga virilis} [L.], the manly gown; the common toga. This was assumed by Roman boys about the time of completing their fourteenth year.
Wearing a light blue toga with pants and sunglasses to protect his eyes, Hudson walked through a widened doorway and onto a specially constructed, elevated concrete patio.
The woman in "Corrupt Legislation" shows sinful decolletage in her toga and her scales are unbalanced by gold on one.
"I'm thinking of wearing a toga," said Ommaya.
But in the Washington Opera's updated new production, Nero wears boxer shorts instead of a toga, and his senators clutch briefcases and orate around a board-room table instead of from the world's original rostrum.
The boy, clad in a leather toga, sat on a cowhide in a circle of male relatives and stared hard at the stranger's knife.