pontificals
Britishplural noun
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The figure on the tomb is a modern restoration, very elaborately clad in full pontificals, while the hands are clasped about a heart, representing the sursum corda, or lifting up of the heart.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Before the altar, robed in full pontificals, sat in State the dead Archbishop, while lamps flickered solemnly, and muttered intercessions arose from the trembling lips of a ring of kneeling priests.
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham
Bishop Laval in pontificals, surrounded by the priests of his diocese, awaited the royal envoy at the top of Mountain Hill, which was then the only practicable highway between the Lower and the Upper Town.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
Mass was performed by the cardinal-viceroy in his pontificals.
From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott
At the altar was a priest dressed in splendid pontificals.
From Rollo on the Rhine by Jacob Abbott
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