Tunicle
noun, Ecclesiastical.
1.
a vestment worn over the alb by subdeacons, as at the celebration of the Mass, and by bishops.
noun
1.
(mainly RC Church) the liturgical vestment worn by the subdeacon and bishops at High Mass and other religious ceremonies
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