Fig. 553. Pope in full pontificals.
Pope. The illustration represents the Pope of Rome in full pontificals, viz. the tiara, consisting of three crowns of gold decorated with precious stones and surmounted by a cross, and over a rochet (surplice) of silk a mantle of gold-work plentifully ornamented with pearls. The under vestment, which is long, is of hyacinth colour. The slippers are of velvet with a cross of gold, which all who wish to speak to the Pope reverently kiss. Late mediæval artists attributed this costume to the First Person of the Trinity. It is given also to St. Clement, St. Cornelius, St. Fabian, St. Gregory, St. Peter, and St. Sylvanus.
Popina, R. A tavern or refreshment-place where food was sold, in contradistinction to caupona, which was a shop for selling wine.
Popinjay, O. E. A parrot.
Poplin. A textile of modern introduction, woven of threads of silk and worsted.
Poppy, Chr. This plant, the seed of which affords a soporific oil, symbolizes, in Christian iconography, death.
Poppy Oil. A bland drying oil, obtained from poppy-seed, and used in painting. (See Oils.)
Poppy-head. A term in decorative art for the carved ornaments with which the tops of the uprights of wood-work, such as the ends of benches, backs of chairs, bedposts, &c., were crowned.
Popularia, R. The second mænianum or tier of seats in an amphitheatre.