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- noun Plural form of
tunicle .
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Examples
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Within the Carthusian rite, dalmatics and tunicles are not used generally.
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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Now, the question is often asked therefore, "why then do we see older dalmatics and tunicles in violet?"
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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As was mentioned in the quote above, folded chasubles were worn by the deacon and subdeacon in place of the dalmatic and tunicles at the appropriate times.
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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Note the presence - traditional in the orbis hispanicus - of ministers in tunicles:
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Just like the Grand Marian Procession last December 7 in Intramuros, the procession featured the traditional Hispanic practice of vesting the acolytes, thurifers and crucifers in tunicles.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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With the completion of the altar in the Lady Chapel in 1913 it emerged fully-fledged, Then, in the same year, Dom Bede Camm arrived from Erdington and brought with him the needlework of the sisters at Southam which produced the distinctive dalmatics and tunicles.
Archive 2008-03-16 papabear 2008
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Now this humour, according to Salvianus, is sometimes in the substance of the brain, sometimes contained in the membranes and tunicles that cover the brain, sometimes in the passages of the ventricles of the brain, or veins of those ventricles.
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Then being brought backe, his keepers kept him in close prison, aduertising the king of his demeanour: wherevpon he commanded that the sight of his eies should be put out, but so, as the balles of them should remaine unbroken, for the auoiding of a noisome deformitie that otherwise would ensue, if the glassie tunicles should take hurt.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I. Raphael Holinshed
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It has been contended that in many cases such designations must be regarded as referring to the apparels with which the albs were adorned; also that the albs of silk, velvet, etc. were probably tunicles or dalmatics.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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At York Minster they had sets of four tunicles pro thuribulariis et choristis (for the thurifers and chanters) in each of the four colours, white, red, blue, and green
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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