mantellettan.
/mantəˈlɛtə/, U.S. /ˌmæn(t)əlˈɛdə/ Roman Catholic Church.
A sleeveless knee-length vestment worn by cardinals, bishops, and certain other high-ranking ecclesiastics.
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1853 J. D. H. Dale tr. G. Baldeschi Ceremonial Rom. Rite 6 These latter should wear stoles of the colour of the day; and if Prelates the mozetta, or mantelletta.
1897 Catholic Dict. (ed. 5) Mantelletta, a vestment made of silk or woollen stuff, open but fastened in front, reaching almost to the knees... It is worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the ‘prelati’ of the Roman Court [etc.]... The mantellette of cardinals are of three colours.
1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xiv. 204 Bishops he gave up in despair. ‘The English can never tell between the Mantelletta and the Mozetta, and they insist on wearing the latter outside their own Dioceses.’
1948 H. J. McCloud Clerical Dress & Insignia 94 The mantelletta..dates from the latter half of the 14th century... [It] is a sign of restricted jurisdiction or of no jurisdiction.
1996 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 21 Feb. 16 The Bernini is a technical tour de force in which white marble is made to imitate a tangled beard or a button accidentally left undone on the pope's velvet mantelletta.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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