călautĭca (in many MSS. and edd. erroneously călantĭca), ae, f. [of uncertain etym.; acc. to Beier, Cic. Clod. et Cur. 5, p. 107, perh. kindr. with καλύπτω, as auris, through the Cretan form αὖς, with οὖς],
a covering for the head of women , which fell down over the shoulders (perh. a kind of veil): calautica est tegmen muliebre, quod capiti innectitur,