mantellone

[ man-tl-oh-nee ]

nounRoman Catholic Church.
  1. a purple mantle extending to the ankles, worn over the cassock by lesser prelates of the papal court.

Origin of mantellone

1
<Italian, augmentative of mantellomantle

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