Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (R. C. Ch.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.
- A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.
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Examples
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She was dressed in a scarlet dalmatica with gold trim and a matching girdle strung with tiny bells that tinkled when she moved.
Dark Oracle Alayna Williams 2010
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The Dalmatian Islands host a very interesting relict and endemic pine, Pinus nigra dalmatica.
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The ecoregion includes an important number of relict species including Quercus macrolepis, Pinus dalmatica, Platanus orientalis, Alnus cordata, Tetraclinis articulata, Thymus capitatus, and Styrax officinalis.
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In karst springs and littoral caves, Bogidiella dalmatica can be found.
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Hugh de Pateshall walked before with the patine, clothed in a dalmatica; and the Earls of Chester, Lincoln, and Warren, bearing the swords, preceded him.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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Besides tunica, it also bore the name of tunicella; dalmatica minor; dalmatica linea, or simply linea; tunica stricta, or merely stricta; subdiaconale; roccus; alba; and, especially in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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As early as the first Roman Ordo the tunic is found as one of the papal pontifical vestments under the name of dalmatica minor, dalmatica linea.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Craigana Murr. = ponderosa, 66 cubensis Grise. = occidentalis, 70 cubensis Sarg. = caribaea, 70 dalmatica Vis. = nigra, 58 deflexa Torr. = ponderosa, 66 densata Mast. = sinensis, 60 densiflora Sieb.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Other pelories are terminal and quite regular, and occur in some species of _Linaria_, where I observed them in _Linaria dalmatica_.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Gothic imagery that he could make a Lady of the Pillar in a brocade dalmatica, a Mater Dolorosa with the seven swords in her breast, a St. Christopher with the child Jesus on his shoulder and leaning on a palm tree, worthy to serve as types to the Byzantine painters of Epinal ....
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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