Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CU'RULE
CU'RULE, a. [L. curulis, from currus, 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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