sticharion

noun

1. The outer clerical garb worn by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to the alb in Latin-Rite Catholic Churches.

   a little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek στιχάριον (stikhárion).

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

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