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(Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back
Answer for the clue "(Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back ", 7 letters:
pallium
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Pallium is a term used for the anatomy of animals including humans, with several different specific meanings. The adjectival form of the word is "pallial". For the Roman cloak, see Pallium (Roman cloak) For the ecclesiastical vestment in the Catholic Church, ...
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n. the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the gray matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum [syn: cerebral cortex , cerebral mantle , cortex ] (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell ...
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n. 1 A woollen vestment conferred on archbishops by the Pope. 2 (context historical English) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. 3 (context zoology English) The mantle of a mollusc. 4 (context meteorology English) A sheet of cloud covering ...
Usage examples of pallium.
Get me the dalmatica and the paenula and the pallium and that silver pectoral, and then help me do something with my hair.
She looked around the room, her eyes lingering briefly on Drosos whose hair was still wet from the baths and who wore turquoise silk and a pallium of silver and lavender.
He stretched and then tugged at the end of his pallium which was wrapped across the segmented links of his old-fashioned loricae.
He had wrapped his pallium around his shoulders and neck as well as over his head so that he would not become drenched during the short walk to the palace.
His pallium was good quality but simple and the slight embroidery was similar to what most other freemen wore.
Panaigios adjusted the drape of his pallium and settled himself more properly in the chair.
Panaigios had taken one of the folds of his pallium in his hands and was running his fingers over the embroidery.
He began by tugging the end of his pallium free and starting the complicated process of unwinding it.
He unwound the last part of his pallium and tossed it aside into a disordered heap.
Ghornan pulled the coins from the folds of the narrow pallium wound around his waist.
Kimon Athanatadies emerged from his chapel some while later, his dusty dalmatica and disarranged pallium revealing that he had spent part of his time at prayers prostrate.
Athanatadies had folded his arms, although his wide, gold-embroidered pallium shoved his arms upward when he did.
His fingers moved almost constantly, now at his pallium, now at the hem of his sleeves, now at the large, pearl-encrusted cross he wore around his neck.
His pallium was wrapped beltlike around his waist and knotted once without artistry.
Athanatadies emerged from his chapel some while later, his dusty dalmatica and disarranged pallium revealing that he had spent part of his time at prayers prostrate.