Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word CHIMERE
CHIMERE
Definitions of CHIMERE
- (ecclesiastical) The upper robe worn by some bishops of the Anglican communion, usually without sleeves.
- Obsolete form of chimera.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using CHIMERE in a Sentence
- His government was beset with opposition from the Fanmi Lavalas political party (and with them, a large amount of the Haitian populace) and violence by and between gangs, rebels, and militants (especially in Port-au-Prince and its metropolitan area), many of whom are either former members of the Haitian Armed Forces (disbanded by Aristide in 1995) or street gang supporters of the Aristide government "Chimere".
- For Anglican bishops, the chimere is part of their formal vesture in choir dress — typically the chimere would be worn over a purple cassock and the rochet and would be accompanied by a black scarf known as a tippet, with an optional academic hood.
- The choir dress or convocation habit for bishops, which used to be their only vesture until pre-Reformation vestments were revived, consists of the cassock, rochet, chimere and tippet.
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