Definitions for pallium

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pallium pal·li·um

Spelling: [pal-ee-uh m]

IPA: /ˈpæl i əm/

Pallium is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in pallium (aillmpu).

Definitions for pallium

noun

1. a large, rectangular mantle worn by men in ancient Greece and Rome.
2. Ecclesiastical. a woolen vestment worn by the pope and conferred by him on archbishops, consisting, in its present form, of a narrow ringlike band that rests on the shoulders, with two dependent bands or lappets, one in front and one behind. an altar cloth; a pall.
3. Anatomy. the entire cortex of the cerebrum.
4. Zoology. a mantle, as of a mollusk or bird.

Origin of pallium

before 1150; Old English Latin (not attested in ME); see pall¹

Examples for pallium

Above the stola, women wore a mantle called palla or pallium.

When, you go out with me everyone looks round as if I had a stain on my pallium.

Last but one walks the Archbishop, and last of all follows the bearer of the pallium.

He removed another revolver from under his pallium, offering it to Trent.

On reaching the church the pallium is reverently laid on the high altar.

To the base of each bullet is attached a thin wire of pallium.

He acknowledged Urban as Pope, and conferred the pallium upon Anselm.

But it is unusual to paint him with the pallium, and with a book in his hand.

Peter is giving the pallium to the Pope, and a standard to Charlemagne.

Did he receive the pallium from Rome, sent by special Papal messengers?