amice
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The Dominican Friars still wear the amice on the head when approaching the altar at mass.
He wears a cassock, amice, alb, stole, fringed tunic and dalmatic, and chasuble with orfrays in front.
From Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See by A. Hugh (Alfred Hugh) Fisher
"I observed a peculiar patch in his amice over the left shoulder."
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Alexander Huth
These additions to the albe and amice were always used in England, and of course lace was unknown in old times.
How strange the evidence, too, that convicted him, the theft of the bottle of hair dye, the remarkable patch on his amice.
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Alexander Huth