Usage examples (13)

• He often carries a caduceus (or Herald's Staff) and wears Winged Boots/Sandles and a Winged Traveler's Hat (called a petasus).
• It is a statuette, apparently of gold, or, more probably, of bronze-gilt — a figure of Mercury, obviously, its head being surmounted with the petasus or winged hat, the...
• AFP/Getty Images Brad Pitt Among the first hats distinguished by having a brim was the felt petasus or petasos of the Greeks and Romans, which tied under the chin,...
• Egina marbles, and have something of the same effect: the small round hat is in the form of Mercury's petasus; and the shoes and gaiters of the greater number are...