gausapa, gausape

and gausăpum (γαύσαπης). A woollen cloth with a long nap on one side, but smoother on the other, used by both sexes for clothing, as well as for table-cloths, napkins, bedcovers, etc. (Plin. H. N. viii. 73; Ovid, A. A. ii. 300; Mart. xiv. 152). The name is also used of wigs of light flaxen hair—a colour much admired by the Roman ladies. See caliendrum; coma.