bulla
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- noun A round seal affixed to a papal bull.
- noun A large blister or vesicle.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun An ornament in the form of a capsule or locket, in use among the ancient Romans, who adopted it from the Etruscans.
- noun A seal attached to a document.
- noun Any ornament of rounded form, especially if suspended, such as those which are attached by small chains to the Hungarian crown.
- noun In pathology, a bleb or portion of epidermis raised by the extravasation of a transparent watery fluid, as in erysipelas, etc.
- noun In anatomy, an inflated portion of the bony external meatus of the ear, forming a more or less well-marked prominence on each side at the base of the skull of many animals, usually constituted by a bulbous tympanic bone.
Examples
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A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment.
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The bulla was a small object, enclosed in historical times in a capsule, and suspended round the child's neck.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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Though it is true, they then constituted many things in honor to the women; as to give them the way wherever they met them; to speak no ill word in their presence; not to appear naked before them, or else be liable to prosecution before the judges of homicide; that their children should wear an ornament about their necks called the bulla (because it was like a bubble), and the praetexta, a gown edged with purple.
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Among the unusual finds extracted by Bar-Ilan University's Gabriel Barkai and his team of students and volunteers is a "bulla," or seal impression, thought to be used to close cloth sacks of silver.
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The Coroner also ruled yesterday that a separate find of a gold Bronze Age purse or 'bulla' should be considered a treasure.
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Features of its syringeal bulla are unique, it has that rounded, bushy head crest, and various details of the plumage on its flanks, wings and neck are unique.
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Features of its syringeal bulla are unique, it has that rounded, bushy head crest, and various details of the plumage on its flanks, wings and neck are unique.
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Last year (1845) a worthy burgher, who had dug up in his garden under the abbey walls what seemed to him a rare coin of a Scotch king, was scarcely well pleased to learn that it was a leaden _bulla_ of Pope Alexander III., bronzed with the oxidising of seven centuries.
Note
The word 'bulla' comes from a Latin word meaning 'bubble'.
