The stola was a loose garment, gathered in and girdled at the waist with a deep flounce extending to the feet.
To be sure, it was a pity that the careful folds in which she had arranged her stola to fall over her ankles could not be appreciated, while she sat in the carriage half covered by Cornelia's fuller draperies.
The tunic was of that pale shining gold which the ancients described by the word ‘hyaline’; the stola was of saffron colour.
He pointed to a lady dressed simply in a white stola beneath a light-blue palla, who wore no jewels except the cameos which fastened the loops of her sleeve.
Octavia had arrayed herself in one of the most costly dresses from the imperial wardrobe, and her stola was of that amethystine tint the use of which Nero afterwards reserved for himself alone.
Long robes fashioned like the old tunic and stola fell in graceful folds round the figure to the ground; the sleeves were of moderate width, permitting the under-sleeves to be seen fitting tightly to the wrists.
When the stola became popular it was always white, bearing long sleeves ornamented with a wide border, and over it fell a mantle with a hood round the shoulders.
The stola was an oblong garment worn over the tunica and extended to the feet.
The stola was a special garment that was permitted to be worn only by married women of unblemished reputation.
A girdle was drawn around it at the waist and then it was pulled up and allowed to fall over the girdle till the girdle was covered by the folds and then the lower part of the stola was pulled down till it just touched the ground.
The clothes she wore were no longer stola and palla, but chiton and himation.
She wore a stola and outer garment of stainless white linen--the perfectly plain badge of her chaste and holy office; while on her small feet were dainty sandals, bound on by thongs of whitened leather.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stola" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
