Gr. Antiq. Also causia. [Gr. καυσία.] A low broad-brimmed felt hat worn by the ancient Macedonians.
1850. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art, § 338 (ed. 2), 402.
1856. Grote, Greece, II. xciv. XII. 337. Himself [Alexander the Great] steering his vessel, with the kausia on his head, and the regal diadem above it.
1860. W. Alexander, St. Augustine’s Holiday (1886), 217. A glittering tiar above his kausia.
