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There are still traces of colour on this monument and gold remains on the points of the cap to which the camail is fastened, as also on the jewelled sword-belt.— Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
Her petticoat was very short, lightly puffed on the sides, and ornamented only with two very long pockets trimmed like the camail.— Strange True Stories of Louisiana
The high priest wore upon his ephod, which was a kind of camail, rich rings, that served as clasps; a large emerald was set and engraved with mysterious names.— Thaumaturgia
It has got that name perhaps because its colour makes it look somewhat old, and none but old men are promoted to that dignity; or because its notes are soft, feeble, and rare; or lastly, because they wanted a bird of that name in the colony, having two other kinds named cardinals and bishops The Cardinal owes its name to the bright red of the feathers, and to a little cowl on the hind part of the head, which resembles that of the bishop's ornament, called a camail.— History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
A German translation of the French original (in the Imperial Public Library at St. Petersburg) will be found in La Mara's Musikerbriefe Mademoiselle de Rozieres has found the piece of cloth in question (it was in the camail-carton of Mdlle.— Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete
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