gremial
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin gremiālis.
Adjective[edit]
gremial (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the lap.
Noun[edit]
gremial (plural gremials)
- A decorated cloth placed on a bishop's lap whilst celebrating mass or ordaining priests.
- (obsolete) A bosom friend.
- 1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge:
- These Friars living in these convents were capable of degrees, and kept their Acts, as other University-men. Yet were they gremials and not gremials, who sometimes would so stand on the tiptoes of their privileges, that they endeavoured to be higher than other students: so that oftentimes they and the scholars could not set their horses in one stable, or rather their books on one shelf.
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin gremiālis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
gremial m or f (masculine and feminine plural gremials)
Related terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
gremial m (plural gremials)
- gremial (vestment)
Further reading[edit]
- “gremial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
gremial m or f (masculine and feminine plural gremiales)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “gremial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- ca:Clothing
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