Caracalʹla [long-mantle].

Aureʹlius Antoniʹnus was so called because he adopted the Gaulish caracalla in preference to the Roman toga. It was a large, close-fitting, hooded mantle, reaching to the heels, and slit up before and behind to the waist. Aureʹlius was himself born in Gaul, called Caracal in Ossian. (See Curtmantle.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Captain Copperthorne’s Crew
Captain Podd
Captain Stiff
Captious
Capua
Capuohin
Capulet
Caput Mortuum
Caqueux
Carabas
Caracalla [long-mantle]
Caracci (pron. Kar-rah-che)
Carack
Caradoc
Caraites
Caran DAche
Carat of Gold
Caraway
Carbineer
Carbonado
Carbonari

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