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PALLIUM

Volume 3 · 60 words · 1771 Edition

or PALL, an archiepiscopal vestment, of white woollen cloth, about the breadth of a border, made round, and thrown over the shoulders.

PALM-SUNDAY, in the Christian church, the Sunday next before Easter; being so called in memory of our Saviour's triumphal entry into Jerusalem when the multitude that attended him strewed palm-branches in his way.

PALM-TREE, in botany. See Phoenix.