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n. A cloak or mantle worn by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

n. Ecclesiastical A vestment worn by the pope and conferred by him on archbishops and sometimes on bishops. Also called pall1.

n. The mantle of gray matter forming the cerebral cortex.

n. The mantle of a mollusk, brachiopod, or bird.

n. A woollen vestment conferred on archbishops by the Pope.

n. A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.

n. The mantle of a mollusc.

n. A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.

n. The cerebral cortex.

n. A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.

n. A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.

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n. The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.

n. The mantle of a bird.

n. In Roman antiquity, a voluminous rectangular mantle for men, corresponding to the Greek himation (see himation), and considered at Rome, because worn by Greek savants, as the particular dress of philosophers; also, a toga or other outer garment; a curtain, etc., of rectangular shape.

n. Eccles.: In the early church, a large mantle worn by Christian philosophers, ascetics, and monks.

n. A vestment worn by certain bishops, especially patriarchs and metropolitans.

n. An alter-cloth; a frontal or pall.

n. In conchology, the mantle, mantle-flap, or mantle-skirt of a mollusk, an outgrowth of the dorsal body-wall.

n. In ornithology, the mantle; the stragulum; the back and folded wings together, in any way distinguished, as by color in a gull, etc.

n. 5. A cirro-stratus cloud when it forms a uniform sheet over the whole sky.

n. The cerebral cortex, or that portion of it which forms the roof and sides of the lateral ventricles: this is termed the pallium, or brain mantle, as distinguished from the stem of the brain on which it rests.

n. cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome

n. (Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back

n. (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell

n. the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum

"The word pallium, or palla, was originally used of all kinds of coverings, notably of what we now call the altar-cloths, and also of the corporal."

cloak    vestment    cuticle    epidermis   

basal pallium    marginal pallium   

palliative    palliate    palliation   

pallia    mantle   

pall   

capiam    maniple    intrante    scapulary    gracile    auferam    contulit    moniti    amicae