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*[[Dalmatic]] - a wide sleeved tunic, slit up the sides. the normal eucharistic garment of the Deacon. Decorated with two vertical bands connected by two horizontal bands (see Clavis.)
*[[Maniple]] - a small thin band of cloth worn on the left wrist by clergy (subdeacon, deacon, priest, and bishop) at liturgy. Its purpose was originally to wipe the chalice with.
*[[Mitre]]- pointed cap with two peaks: front and back. Classified by three levels of decoration and costliness. Worn by bishops and abbots. Early English or Medieval style very short, made of felt, and slightly rounded toward the top; Roman style much taller, of rigid material, and more sharply pointed at top.
*[[Orphrey]] - the gilded and embroidered bands of decoration on Western vestments, particularly the chasuble.
*[[Pallium]] - the narrow woolen stole granted to bishops of metropolitan rank and above in the western church, and which denote their high authority. Derived from the himation, the Greek philosophers mantle, also worn by ascetics in the early Church.