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• (eccles.) A term of no very definite application, being sometimes applied to an archbishop's pallium, and sometimes to an amice.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

• s[=u]-p[.e]r-h[=u]'me-ral, n. anything carried on the shoulders: the amice: the pallium: a Jewish ephod.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson