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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Dalmatica

· Dal·mat·i·ca · IPA
01 n. A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress or…
  1. 1.
    A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.(R. C. Ch.)
  2. 2.
    A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.