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pallium

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈpæ.li.əm/Part of speech nounSorted aillmpuStarts with PEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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