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pallium
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pallium (plural pallia or palliums)
- (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.]
- 1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 76:
- Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped?
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 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, published 2017, page 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.
- (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc. [from 19th c.]
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
- (botany) A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
- (obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus. [19th c.]
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liturgical vestment
cloak
mantle of mollusk
sheet of cloud
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cerebral cortex — see cerebral cortex
Further reading
- “pallium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pallium”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “pallium”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Finnish
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pallium
- pallium (vestment)
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pallium m (plural palliums)
Further reading
- “pallium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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