Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparel attached to the dalmatic: it is broader than is usual on the alb.
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Examples
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In Italy it was customary to set a costly, and often richly embroidered, band (aurifrisium, parura, fimbria) above the lower hem on the back and front of the vestment and also above the sleeves; at times narrow vertical bands were added to this adornment.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Patarol, 'parura follicitu* de uerbis, ita cociuertit; Voi la confer - vazione del Romano Popolo, e la confolazion dello fcempio degli di lui ucciforu Defutrt fortaffe etiam plura, quae diuinare mihi magnus non do - nat Apollo* Iaeg.
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Item in alio iij aliae ymagines de eadem secta, videlicet, Sanctae Annae, Sanctae Mariae, et Sanctae Elizabeth, cum j parura stricta aurea pro frontal! summi altaris.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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Item j frontale pro summo altari de panno serico cum rosis aurei colons et ij pennis argenteis de ostrich et j parura longa pro dicto altari ejusdem sectae, et ij Ridelli ejusdem sectae.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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