palliums in English
noun
1
a woolen vestment conferred by the pope on an archbishop, consisting of a narrow, circular band placed around the shoulders with short lappets hanging from front and back.
Within a short time of his election, a formal inauguration ceremony takes place, at which the woollen pallium is bestowed upon him.
2
a man's large rectangular cloak, especially as worn by Greek philosophical and religious teachers.
The one figure that remains to be reconsidered within this arrangement of matter in Rubens's painting is the Pan flanked by a pinelike tree and draped with a cloak resembling a Greek pallium .
3
the mantle of a mollusk or brachiopod.
In ray-finned fishes, however, the pallium thickens and everts, so that the initial most dorsal pallial segment comes to lie lateral to the remaining pallium .
4
the outer wall of the mammalian cerebrum, corresponding to the cerebral cortex.
In mammals, the components are incorporated into the thin overlying pallium to form a laminated neocortex.
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1. A note then asserts that the original Latin is, quasi stratam palliis fulgentibus adornatam at innumeris Coruscantem lampadibus, which I translate as meaning, like a street adorned with glittering cloaks (or palliums) or rather flashing with unnumbered lamps