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praetexere

praetexere [CL] 1 to furnish with edge or border (in quot. transf.). lurida cui gelidus pallor praetexerat ora Alcuin SS Ebor 1141; hic in pomiferas arbores terra se subrigit; hic ~itur ager vineis W. Malm. GP IV 186; hic Wire amnis utrasque ripas ‥ monasteriis ~uit Ib. IV 186 p. 328. 2 to cloak, to shroud (in quot. fig.). libertatem suam in velamen malitiae vertunt ‥ et cum vitiis impune serviunt libertatem vocant, nomine hoc ~unt culpam Bede Ep. Cath. 53. 3 (p ppl. praetexta as sb. f.) toga with purple border (worn by magistrates or children). ~ta, cildes scrud Ælf. Gl. 124; palla, pallium ‥ penula, ~ta, clamys ‥ paludamentum Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 475; ~ta, vestis puerorum unde pretextatus, i. illa veste ornatus vel genus officii Ib. 484; utebantur veste que dicitur ~a et inde pueri nobiles vocabantur pretextati Holcot Wisd. 192.

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