Pallium
/ˈpæ.li.əm/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. historical
- 2 cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome wordnet
- 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 (Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back wordnet
- 5 The mantle of a mollusc.
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- 6 (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell wordnet
- 7 The cerebral cortex.
- 8 the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum wordnet
- 9 A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
- 10 A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus. obsolete
Example
More examples"Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped?"
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall.