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amice

[am-is] / ˈæm ɪs /


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On seeing the lad, Abbe Mouret had taken up the amice.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola

These additions to the albe and amice were always used in England, and of course lace was unknown in old times.

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 George Worley

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

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 Robert Hugh Benson

Deacon, in girded alb, amice, stole over left shoulder, book in left hand.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer


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