pallium

noun /ˈpæ.li.əm/

1. A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.

   historical

2. A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion.

   Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped?

3. The mantle of a mollusc.

4. The cerebral cortex.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pallium (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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