Ballium vs Pallium - What's the difference?
ballium | pallium |
A woollen vestment conferred on archbishops by the Pope.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 339:
(historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
(zoology) The mantle of a mollusc.
(meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
As nouns the difference between ballium and pallium
is that ballium is bailey (fortification) while pallium is a woollen vestment conferred on archbishops by the pope.pallium
English
(wikipedia pallium)Noun
(en-noun)- Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium , a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials.
