pallium
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
pallium (plural pallia)
- (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. [from 10th c.]
- (Christianity) A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion. [from 11th c.]
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 339:
- Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium, a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials.
- 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 23:
- Wynfrith, an Anglo-Saxon monk later known as St Boniface, who was the first archbishop of Mainz and a key figure in the Empire's church history, was given cloth that had lain across St Peter's tomb as his pallium in 752.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 339:
- (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc. [from 19th c.]
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
- (obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus. [19th c.]
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