SAGUM

Etymology

Noun

sagum (plural sagums or saga)

(historical) A cloak, worn in ancient times by the Gauls, early Germans, and Roman soldiers, made of a rectangular piece of (usually red) coarse cloth and fastened on the right shoulder.

Anagrams

• gaums, magus

Source: Wiktionary


Sa"gum, n.; pl. Saga. Etym: [L. sagum, sagus; cf. Gr. Say a kind of serge.] (Rom. Antiq.)

Definition: The military cloak of the Roman soldiers.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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