Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Among the ancient Romans, a man's under-tunic.
- noun In the Anglo-Saxon Church, an inner tunic worn under the alb. It seems to have served the purpose of a cassock.
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Examples
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This person wears a kind of short hunting boot, and is clothed as well as his comrade in a light tunic without sleeves, bound round the hips, and called _subucula_.
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Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur!
Summit Daily News - Top Stories By Jim Beam 2009
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I suppose verily, "continues the translator," it was his alb, for mine author here setteth a word 'subucula,' which is both an alb and a shirt, and in the first part of this life the same author saith that this holy man wore next his skin no hair as for the hardest, nor linen as for the softest, but he went with wool, as with the mean. "[
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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