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Common clothes wrapped round a Roman (5)

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I believe the answer is:

togas

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'common clothes wrapped round a roman' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'common clothes wrapped round' is the wordplay.
'common' becomes 'a' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'clothes' becomes 'togs' (togs can informally mean clothing).
'wrapped round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a' placed into 'togs' is 'TOGAS'.

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(Other definitions for togas that I've seen before include "What some ancient citizens wore" , "clothing" , "garments worn by ancient Romans" , "Roman garments" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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