Crossword-Solution: FOLLIS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

His pre-eminence in the latter faculty gave occasion to some etymologists to ring changes on his name, and to decide that it was derived from Follis Optimus, softened through an Italian medium into Folle Ottimo, contracted poetically into Folleotto, and elided Anglicé into Folliott, signifying a first-rate pair of bellows.

Among the Romans there appear to have been three types or sizes of ball, the _pila_, or small ball, used in catching games, the _paganica_, a heavy ball stuffed with feathers, and the _follis_, a leather ball filled with air, the largest of the three.

There was a game known as _trigon_, played by three players standing in [v.03 p.0264] the form of a triangle, and played with the _follis_, and also one known as _harpastum_, which seems to imply a "scrimmage" among several players for the ball.[1] These games are known to us through the Romans, though the names are Greek.

The real Roman football was played with the inflated _follis_, which was kicked from side to side over boundaries, and thus must have closely resembled the modern Association game.

Lorrimore played Chinese Kahn under the terrace awning; Colonel Follis Curmew, who had been rash enough to discard his coat and reveal an unlooked-for excess of abdomen, played tennis with Silvette against Jack Rivett and Mrs.