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Pallium

//ˈpæ.li.əm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. historical
  2. 2
    cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome wordnet
  3. 3
    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?"

  4. 4
    (Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back wordnet
  5. 5
    The mantle of a mollusc.
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  1. 6
    (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell wordnet
  2. 7
    The cerebral cortex.
  3. 8
    the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum wordnet
  4. 9
    A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
  5. 10
    A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus. obsolete

Etymology

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

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