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Papal cross   /pˈeɪpəl krɔs/   Listen
Papal cross

noun
1.
A cross with three crossbars.






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"Papal cross" Quotes from Famous Books



... sedia with his flabelli waving on either hand, under a white canopy upheld by prelates, he passed through the glittering rooms of his own palace, along the dark corridors of the Vatican and down the marble stairs, accompanied by his guards in helmets and preceded by the papal cross covered with a violet veil, into the great Basilica, lit only by large candles in iron stands, and looking plain and barn-like and full of shadows in the gloom and the smoky air. But after he had visited ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine



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