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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Surplice

Britannica 11th

SURPLICE (Late Lat. super pelliceum; FT. super, over, and pellis, fur; Span, sobrepellice; Fr. surplis; in Ital. cotta and Ger. Chorrock, choir coat), a liturgical vestment of the Christian Church. It is a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or ...

Vol. 26, pp. 136-137 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Suricate

Britannica 11th

SURICATE, or MEERKAT (Suricata tetradactyla) , a small South African mammal of the civet family, ranging from Cape Colony to Algoa Bay. The head and body are about 14 in. long, and the tail half as much; the fur is long and soft, light grizzled grey in colour,

Vol. 26, pp. 136-136 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 33.75
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