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What is a dalmatic?

What is a dalmatic? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A long wide-sleeved tunic, which serves as a liturgical vestment in the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches and is worn by a deacon at the Eucharist or Mass and, although infrequently, by bishops as an undergarment above the alb.
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In many places the medieval dalmatic has given way to a full-length white or off-white tunic which is simple and functional.
This dalmatic must be ranked first and highest among ecclesiastical embroideries.
Virgil has celebrated him as a poet, and a commander of armies, in the Illyrican and dalmatic wars.
The dalmatic has been much restored, but, I believe, most carefully kept to the old lines.
There has been much controversy as to the date of the dalmatic of Charlemagne in the Vatican treasury.
In England at the Reformation the dalmatic ultimately shared the fate of the chasuble and other mass vestments.

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