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dalmatica en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin dalmatica.

Meanings

1. Synonym of dalmatic.
   • See also the splendid dresses of the clergy, unequalled in any other country and age; the dalmaticas and ternos are most superbly embroidered. 1865, H[enry] O’Shea, “Seville”, in A Guide to Spain, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 390, column 2:
   • Tunicas and dalmaticas, although usually of some solid, bright colour, now began to be decorated all over with patterns, embroidered or stencilled in conventional designs. 1924, Herbert Norris, Costume & Fashion: The Evolution of European Dress Through the Earlier Ages, London; Toronto, Ont.: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton and Co., page 101:
   • For the privilege of wearing dalmaticae, see above, Vol. I. p. 263, n. 1. 1905, F. Holmes Dudden, Gregory the Great: His Place in History and Thought, volume II, Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock Publishers, published 26 August 2004, page 74:
   • Moses and his followers wear the tunic and pallium, the Jews coloured dalmaticae and paenulae.[…]The women wear long gaily but softly tinted dalmaticae, with broad coloured clavi; 1904, Jean Paul Richter, Alicia Cameron Taylor, The Golden Age of Classic Christian Art, London: Duckworth and Co., pages 201 and 355:
   • It ornamented, not only the chair of Saint Ambrose at Milan, but also the dalmaticas of the primitive Christians. 1929, In the Evening of My Thought, Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, translation of [Au Soir de la Pensée] by Georges Clemenceau, page 323:
   • The Edict of Diocletian (A. D. 301) lists all manner of dalmaticae in fine wool, silk, wool and silk union fabric, and linen, for men and women. 1968, Bonner Jahrbücher, page 222:

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Synonyms

dalmatic