Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Birrus

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Birrus

or Burrus (βίρρος). A cloak or cape furnished with a hood; a heavy, coarse garment for

Fisherman with Birrus. (From a Pompeian Statue.)

use in bad weather. It was made of wool or beaver, with a long nap. The word is also used as synonymous with lacerna, cucullus, and sagum, all of which see.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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