Pallia - English meaning

noun

A woollen vestment conferred by the pope on an archbishop, consisting of a narrow circular band placed round the shoulders with a short lappet hanging from front and back.

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Within a short time of his election, a formal inauguration ceremony takes place, at which the wooll…

noun

A man's large rectangular cloak, especially as worn by greek philosophical and religious teachers.

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The one figure that remains to be reconsidered within this arrangement of matter in rubens's painti…

noun

The mantle of a mollusc or brachiopod.

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In ray-finned fishes, however, the pallium thickens and everts, so that the initial most dorsal pal…

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The cerebral cortex, especially of a mammal.

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In mammals, the components are incorporated into the thin overlying pallium to form a laminated neo…