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Meaning of sakkos | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).

Equivalents

Ελληνικά σάκκος

Examples

“When in 1411 Emperor John VIII Palaeologos married a daughter of Vasilii II, Grand Prince of Muscovy, he sent Moscow a splendid specimen of the liturgical vestment known as a sakkos as a gift for Metropolitan Photios.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

Saklofske Sakmarian Sako sakobuvirus sakoku Sakolski