Usually means: Ceremonial vestments of a bishop.
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▸ noun:  The vestments of a bishop, priest, or pope.

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portentous, grandiloquent, pompous, pretentious, overblown, fanon, subcinctorium, epigonation, canonical, falda, more...

Opposite:
Lay clothing, secular clothing

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Similar:
portentous, grandiloquent, pompous, pretentious, overblown, fanon, subcinctorium, epigonation, canonical, falda, more...

Opposite:
Lay clothing, secular clothing



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