amice

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L. amictus cloak, the word being confused with amice, almuce, a hood or cape.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Not for silky tiara nor amice gustily floating Recks she at all any more; thee, Theseus, ever her earnest 70 Heart, all clinging thought, all chained fancy requireth.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

The neck was bare, the amice being as yet unknown; instead of the stole was what was called the orarium, a sort of handkerchief resting on the shoulders, and falling down on each side.

From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by Newman, John Henry

How strange the evidence, too, that convicted him, the theft of the bottle of hair dye, the remarkable patch on his amice.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Huth, Alexander

Superhumeral, sū-pėr-hū′me-ral, n. anything carried on the shoulders: the amice: the pallium: a Jewish ephod.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various