pallium

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.

2. 2

   A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the…

   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.

   • Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped?
   • Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium, a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials.
   • 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.
3. 3

   The mantle of a mollusc.

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   1. 4

      The cerebral cortex.

   2. 5

      A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.

   3. 6

      A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.

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