amice

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The priest made the sign of the cross, and took up the amice from the vestments that lay folded on the altar.

From By What Authority? by Benson, Robert Hugh

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 Huth, Alexander

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 Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph)

"Salve! amice," was the satirical salutation of Ahenobarbus.

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns

This is the explanation of ll. 1-4, ‘Angustam amice pauperiem pati robustus acri militia puer    condiscat et Parthos ferocis       vexet eques,’ lines which also refer to the resuscitation by Augustus of the citizen-cavalry.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George