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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The plate of pure gold worn on the linen miter of the Jewish high priest.
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“Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus, writing about A.D. 190, speaks of St. John's tomb in that city, and says that he wore the _petalon_, the high priest's mitre used in the Jewish”
“Greeks called it, therefore, not only the born or blooming thing, but the spread or expanded thing -- "[Greek: petalon].”
“It is derived from the Modern Greek _petalon_, horse-shoe, if that, indeed, is not borrowed from the Romany.”
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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