Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun   See saccos .
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- noun Eastern Orthodoxy  A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).
Etymologies
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Examples
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								Revelation also says the witness would prophecy in sackcloth, from the Greek word 'sakkos' meaning sackcloth. 
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								Cadoc took an embroidered mantle off its hanger and fitted it over the fine linen sakkos and be-jeweled dalmatic that enrobed him. The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989 
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								Cadoc took an embroidered mantle off its hanger and fitted it over the fine linen sakkos and be-jeweled dalmatic that enrobed him. The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988 
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								At the present day the Greek women of Thessaly and the Isle of Chios wear a head-dress exactly resembling the antique sakkos. 
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								The modifications of the sakkos, and the way of its being tied, are chiefly illustrated by vase-paintings. 
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								Lastly, he wears over all the sakkos, a vestment like our dalmatic. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913 
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								The new pontifical vestments were: the sakkos, still a patriarchal vestment; the epimanikien; the epigonation, in so far as this vestment had not already been introduced before the ninth century; the epigonation first had the form of a handkerchief and was called enchirion (hand-cloth, handkerchief), it was not named epigonation until the twelfth century. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913 
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								Pontifical vestments are the liturgical head-covering, excepting in the Armenian Rite where the priest also wears such a covering for the head, the sakkos, the omophorion, the epigonation, and the epimanikia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913 
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								Byzantine mitre and epigonation, but not the omophorion or sakkos. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913 
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								Instead of a sakkos he has a phainolion, our chasuble, but reaching to the feet behind and at the sides, and cut away in front (see CHASUBLE and illustrations). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913 
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