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pallia

pallia is the plural of pallium.

Meaning of pallium

Noun

pallium (plural pallia or palliums)

  1. (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
  2. 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?1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 76
  3. The mantle of a mollusc.
  4. The cerebral cortex.
  5. A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
  6. (obsolete) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.

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Questions about pallia

What is pallia the plural of?
Pallia is the plural of pallium.

Words near pallia in the dictionary

  1. pallets
  2. pallette
  3. pallettes
  4. pallholder
  5. pallholders
  6. pallia
  7. pallial
  8. palliament
  9. palliaments
  10. palliard
  11. palliardise

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