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epitrachelions

epitrachelions is the plural of epitrachelion.

Meaning of epitrachelion

Noun

epitrachelion (plural epitrachelions)

  1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
    • [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.1984, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, San Francisco, Calif.: Underwood–Miller; republished New York, N.Y.: IBooks, 2000, page 232

Questions about epitrachelions

What is epitrachelions the plural of?
Epitrachelions is the plural of epitrachelion.

Words near epitrachelions in the dictionary

  1. epitopically
  2. epitoxoid
  3. epitoxoids
  4. epitracheal
  5. epitrachelion
  6. epitrachelions
  7. epitranscriptome
  8. epitranscriptomes
  9. epitranscriptomic
  10. epitranscriptomics
  11. epitrichia

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