Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A loose sleeveless robe worn especially by Anglican bishops.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The outer robe worn by a bishop, to which the lawn sleeves are usually attached. In the English Church the chimere, which until the accession of Elizabeth was of scarlet silk, is now of black satin. During episcopal convocations and when the sovereign attends Parliament, however, the color is scarlet. English prelates of the Roman Catholic Church wear chimeres of purple silk; cardinals, of scarlet. Also
chimera , chimœra, chimmar.
Wiktionary
- n. ecclesiastical The upper robe worn by some bishops of the Anglican communion, usually without sleeves.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.
Etymologies
- Middle English chimer, perhaps from Anglo-Latin chimēra; probably akin to Spanish chamarra, zamarra, type of garment, of Basque origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The chimere is a dress of black satin, with white lawn sleeves.”
“The government of Aristide, who returned to office in 2001 after ruling the country for two periods in the 1990s, allied itself with his own armed partisans, often referred to as chimere after a mythical fire-breathing demon.”
“Someone said the protesters are violent "chimere," a word for political gangs.”
“The chimere is the Convocation habit of a doctor of divinity in”
“Franklyn cited one such Act, 24 Henry VIII c 13 1533 as authorising all doctors to wear scarlet, as well as claiming that the MA and BD are thereby entitled to a black chimere, or tabard.”
“The picture of the bishop in a red chimere is the Episcopalian bishop Michael Curry of the Diocese of North Carolina.”
“Bishop vested in chimere and rochet, enveloped in a rich mantle, with the cross of St. George, encircled by the Garter and motto of the”
“It would seem that the closed cope has a modern representative in the cappa magna of cardinals and bishops, and also in the chimere”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“Over a chimere of figured crimson velvet he wore a fine linen rochet.”
“Perhaps whole families can work together, because otherwise I fear my balcony scene might end up with a naked Archbishop of Canterbury, as his cassock, chimere cloak and mitre all look fiddly.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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