Gausăpa, Gausăpé
and
Gausăpum (
γαύσαπης). A
woollen cloth with a long nap on one side, but smoother on the other, used by both sexes for
clothing, as well as for table-cloths, napkins, bedcovers, etc. (
Plin. H. N. viii. 73; Ovid,
A.
A. ii. 300;
Mart.xiv. 152). The name is also
used of wigs of light flaxen hair—a colour much admired by the Roman ladies. See
Caliendrum;
Coma.