infula
Americannoun
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infulae
plural
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Origin of infula
1600–10; < Medieval Latin, Latin: band, priest's headband
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Helvella infula, Fr., is also a large species, but is not British, although it extends to North America, as also does Helvella sulcata, Afz.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
P. conico-campan. fuscous; g. free, obovate, rosy; s. slender, glabrous, colour of p. hirsute below; sp. rough, 7-9. infula, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Or, when adorned with the infula and crosier, in all thy conventual dignity, did his image never wake within thee a longing desire to return into the world?
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
As an ecclesiastical vestment the cap can be traced, under the name of pileus, to the 12th century; under that of infula, to the end of the 10th.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Such strips are often displayed from the conical top of an uncrested helm, and some ancient examples have the air of the two ends of a stole or of the infulae of a bishop’s mitre.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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