Definition of Almuce. Meaning of Almuce. Synonyms of Almuce

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Definition of Almuce

Almuce
Almuce Al"muce, n. Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

Meaning of Almuce from wikipedia

- An almuce was a hood-like shoulder cape worn as a choir vestment in the Middle Ages, especially in England. Initially, it was worn by the general po****tion...
- Handbook: The Cap, or 'square cap,' may have had its origin in the almuce. For the almuce was originally used to cover the head, and when it ceased to fulfil...
- The mozzetta ([motˈtsetta], plural mozzette; derived from almuce) is a short elbow-length sartorial vestment, a cape that covers the shoulders and is buttoned...
- A Capuche (also almuce) is a friar's cowl, a long, pointed hood which was typically worn by the Franciscan, Capuchin, Augustinian, Carmelite, or Cistercian...
- down in front. The hood and tippet were once a single garment called an almuce. (The tippet is not to be confused with the stole, which is also worn in...
- linen and lace choir rochet for liturgical contexts or sarotium (scarf), almuce (cape), perhaps with an asymmetrical black cope of cloth or sheepskin (Latin:...
- brother canon by the canons of the church and dressed in a surplice and an almuce.) The emperor takes the Oath to defend the Roman Church and swears fealty...
- Almuce as part of the clerical clothing....
- red on the breast. In choir they wear in summer the rochet with a black almuce. The Canons Regular of St. John Cantius were founded in 1998 by C. Frank...
- latter honour with Rowan Williams, whom he "vested in the traditional fur almuce" upon the occasion of his admission and installation as a prebendary. In...