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‖ infula|ˈɪnfjuːlə|
[L. (in sense 1).]
1. Roman Antiq. A slightly twisted flock or fillet of red and white wool, worn on the forehead by priests, worshippers, and suppliants, or similarly placed on victims for sacrifice, and used in other ways as a religious symbol.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Infula, a name antiently given to one of the pontifical ornaments worn on the head. Ibid., The difference between the diadem and the infula consisted in this, that the diadem was flat and broad, and the infula rounded and twisted. 1869W. Smith Dict. Gr. & Rom. Antiq., At Roman marriages the bride, who carried wool upon a distaff in the procession, fixed it as an infula upon the door-case of her future husband on entering the house.
2. Eccl. Each of the two lappets or ribbons of a bishop's mitre. Also in Her.
In med.L. applied also to a chasuble, and in some mediaeval glossaries explained as a mitre or other covering for the head; see Du Cange.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iv. ii. (1611) 192 This kind of infula or Miter, is worne by the antichristian prelate of Rome. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 404 The infulæ, two bands or lappets, depending from the mitre behind, distinguish the bishop from the abbot. 1882Cussans Her. xiv. (ed. 3) 180 From within the circle [of a mitre] depend two Vittæ, Infulæ, or ribbons of purple fringed at the ends with gold. |