Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Impluviatus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

IMPLUVIA'TUS. A term used to designate some particular kind of garments worn by females (Plaut. Epid. ii. 2. 39.); but as it only occurs in reference to a temporary fashion, it is impossible to say from what caprice the term may have sprung, or what peculiarity it was intended to describe. Some refer it to the form, viz. square, like the impluvium of a house (Turneb. Advers. xiv. 19.); others to the colour, vey dark and dingy, like the water which drips down from the roof of a house into the impluvium (Non. Marc. s. v. p. 548.); both conjectures little to be depended on.