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gestatorial chair
/ ˌdʒɛstəˈtɔːrɪəl /
noun
a ceremonial chair on which the pope is carried
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On my first ever visit to the Vatican when I was a student, I remember glimpsing Pope Pius XII being carried aloft inside Saint Peter's on his gestatorial chair flanked by elaborately costumed flunkies bearing ostrich plumes.
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