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sakkos

noun

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek σάκκος (sákkos). Doublet of sac, saccus, sack, and saco.

  1. derived from σάκκος

Definitions

  1. A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion…

    A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).

    • When in 1411 Emperor John VIII Palaeologos married a daughter of Vasilii II, Grand Prince of Muscovy, he sent Moscow a splendid specimen of the liturgical vestment known as a sakkos as a gift for Metropolitan Photios.

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