MEANING
A wide-sleeved outer vestment worn by a deacon in certain Christian services.
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- silk dalmatic
- deacon’s dalmatic
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The deacon wore a silk dalmatic.
Gold thread edged the old dalmatic.
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular dalmatic; plural dalmatics. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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