petalon

Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus, writing about A.D. 190, speaks of St. John's tomb in that city, and says that he wore the _petalon_, the high priest's mitre used in the Jewish

The Books of the New Testament Leighton Pullan 1902

Greeks called it, therefore, not only the born or blooming thing, but the spread or expanded thing -- "[Greek: petalon]."

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

It is derived from the Modern Greek _petalon_, horse-shoe, if that, indeed, is not borrowed from the Romany.

Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842