Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ecclesiastical vestment, not unlike the casula or chasuble, peculiar to the Gallican church of the eighth and ninth centuries.
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If the weather was particularly severe an amphibalus, or double mantle, was permitted.
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Called in Latin casula planeta or pænula, and in early Gallic sources amphibalus, the principal and most conspicuous Mass vestment, covering all the rest.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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It is also probable that the name Amphibalus is derived from some version of the legend in which the cleric's cloak is called an amphibalus; for Geoffrey of Monmouth, the earliest witness to the name Amphibalus, makes precisely the same mistake in another passage, converting the garment called amphibalus into the name of a saint.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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