Epitrachelion

//ˌɛpɪtɹəˈkiliɒn//

"Epitrachelion" in a Sentence (3 examples)

[A] little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.

The epitrachelion is the Orthodox equivalent of the stole, but it hangs straight instead of being crossed over the chest, as is the case with the stole in Western churches.

The colorful tassels of the visible ends of the hierarchs' epitrachelions suggest a late-fourteenth century date.

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