Crossword-Solution: VELAMEN 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Dietrich, solemnly appointed 'Patrician,' had Italy ceded to him by a 'Pragmatic' sanction, and Zeno placed on his head the sacrum velamen, a square of purple, signifying in Constantinople things wonderful, august, imperial--if they could only be made to come to pass.

Purple was the favorite color for this velamen, or veil; because, when the sun shone through it, it cast such beautiful rosy tints on the snowy arena and the white purple-edged togas of the Roman citizens.

There is the rude theatre of the country town with its white-robed audience _en négligé_:-- ipsa dierum festorum herboso colitur si quando theatro maiestas tandemque redit ad pulpita notum exodium, cum personae pallentis hiatum in gremio matris formidat rusticus infans, aequales habitus illic similesque videbis orchestram et populum, clari velamen honoris sufficiunt tunicae summis aedilibus albae (iii.

From these threads the people there manufacture a fabric even more brilliant than _sericum_, and I brought a _velamen_ of it for you, such as only the princes of that country wear." As he spoke, Manlius gave the Imperator a superb textile which he had brought with him from India in the hope that it would be Sophronia's bridal veil.

SACRAMENT, ADORATION OF THE MOST HOLY.—Black vestis, black velamen over head and shoulders, golden figure of the Host on breast.