amice

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There is an inventory extant of the surplices, stoles, and amices, and the fur choir hats with crowns of squirrel and linings of vair.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

After the “Te Deum” had been sung five canons or their vicars, clad in albs and amices, entered by the great door of the choir, and proceeded towards the apse.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.

Nineteen albes and six amices, lacking all their apparel, "whereof the wardens have made sixteen surplices for the choir, which was all that could be made of them."

From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by Worley, George

"And the chaplains of the Sainte-Chapelle, with their gray amices; cum tunices grisis!"

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence