toga 
toga
Definition
toga (tō′gə)
toga
Usage Examples
Possessives
- boy: Before puberty a boy's toga had a purple border.
Converse of object
- wear: Some Roman men are allowed to wear a toga.
Adjective modifier
- white: These Mercury droplets are tiny silver beads of metal that fall on to a beautiful blond goddess wearing a white toga.
Modifies a noun
- picta: It was the general celebrating a triumph in Rome who carried an ivory staff and wore a toga picta and a palmata tunica.
Noun used with modifier
- bedsheet: Don't let your bedsheet toga fall off, or worry about two scheming Roman Senators wearing bright red football socks instead of sandals.
toga Quotes
Idealism isthe noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
If the cardinal points of costume are Robes,Tato, Rig and Scunge, where are shorts in this compass? Theyare the never Robes as other bareleg outfits have been: the toga, the kilt, the lava-lava, the Mahatma's cotton dhoti; archbishops and field marshals at their ceremonies never wear shorts. The very word means underpants in North America.
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