amice
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The neck was bare, the amice being as yet unknown; instead of the stole was what was called the orarium, a sort of handkerchief resting on the shoulders, and falling down on each side.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman
Tho' chang'd my cloth of gold for amice grey— Many of the first discoverers, if we may believe B. Diaz and other contemporary writers, ended their days in a hermitage, or a cloister.
From Poems by Samuel Rogers
"Should you be able to swear to the amice?"
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Alexander Huth
The Dominican Friars still wear the amice on the head when approaching the altar at mass.
The alabaster effigy represents the Abbot in his alb, stole, tunic, dalmatic, chasuble, amice, and mitre, with his pastoral staff on his right side.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé