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Tunicle   Listen
noun
Tunicle  n.  
1.
A slight natural covering; an integument. "The tunicles that make the ball or apple of the eye."
2.
(R. C. Ch.) A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons.





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"Tunicle" Quotes from Famous Books



... and over this above is a red fringe ornament which is probably a rational. The purple dalmatic with scarlet border is very conspicuous under his chasuble; the under-vestments are less distinct, but the ends of the stole show over a very dark garment, which is, perhaps, a tunicle. The mitre is of very early shape. The archiepiscopal figure below wears a similar mitre, a pall over a light green chasuble; underneath a pink dalmatic and a purple show at the ...
— St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music • E. G. P. Wyatt


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