An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue

Usage examples of tunica.

I still had Eldri, tucked securely in the fold where my tunica bloused over my belt.

I came away with a tunica the colour of terra cotta, banded at the hem with green and gold, and a palla of green wool to wear with it, and another ensemble in the rosy shades of dawn.

I dragged the nearest garment over my head, and with tousled hair and the sheer tunica unbelted, ran out into the entry.

I hissed as one of the soldiers made a grab for me, tearing my tunica from the fibula that held it at the shoulder so that it fell, leaving one breast bare.

I will wear the tunica of forest-green silk, and over it the sea-green pallium.

Fausta was reclining on a couch upholstered in crimson brocade which clashed with the purple tunica she wore.

I had a client, a young black man from Tunica who was just passing through Sunflower County.

He walked through the crowded streets, a dark man in a dark tunica big man, powerfully muscled, who carried himself as lightly and easily as a dancer.

Even so, Tal stood resplendent in a pair of new wide-legged trousersthe current fashionwith his boots covered to the buckles, and a broad black leather belt, but he chose to wear a currently out-of-fashion tunica yellow doublet sewn with seed pearls.

In her honor the Tunica annually danced the Sun Dance and placed her statue, together with that of a frog, on altars in their homes.

A fourth man, very lean and wearing the most elaborate palmata wound over his tunica, spoke at last.

Tal stood resplendent in a pair of new wide-legged trousersthe current fashionwith his boots covered to the buckles, and a broad black leather belt, but he chose to wear a currently out-of-fashion tunica yellow doublet sewn with seed pearls.

Big developers out of Nevada and New Jersey docked riverboats in Tunica and wiped out any chance that a small, independent operation like the Crescent might still exist.

Bureau of the Census report, the poorest community in the United States is Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi.

Hrodlind appeared in the doorway, and seeing that I was up, hurried to set out a fresh shift and one of my finer tunicas, the saffron silk with embroideries of wheat sheaves around the hem.