curule

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CURULE, adjective [Latin , a chariot.] Belonging to a chariot. The curule chair or seat, among the Romans, was a stool without a back, covered with leather, and so made as to be folded. It was conveyed in a chariot, and used by public officers.
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