Pretext
A pretence. From the Latin prætexta, a dress embroidered
in the front worn by the Roman magistrates, priests, and children of
the aristocracy between the age of thirteen and seventeen. The prætexta'tæ were dramas in which actors personated those who wore
the prætexta; hence persons who pretend to be what they are not.
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