PREFERRED TERM
Cope
DEFINITION
- n. From the Middle English "cōpe" and Latin "cāpa". As a part of the traditional "ternum", an ecclesiastical and cerimonial vestment, it consist of a semicircular piece of cloth, made of silk or other material. In origins, it had a hood, but lately it was a mere decoration, an ornamental hood. It is worn by the clergics in processions or other celebrations as Vespers, among others.
BROADER CONCEPT
ENTRY TERMS
- copes
- roman cope
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]; Bowker, John. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. (Online Reference); Devonshire Jones, Tom; Murray, Linda; Murray, Peter (eds.) The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture (2nd ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 (Online)
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Pluvial
French
Piviale
Italian
Capa pluvial
Spanish
capa consistorial
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/705
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