colobelt

[ docked, curtailed. Cf. colure.] 1. Atunic with out sleeves, or with short close-fitting sleeves, worn by deacons and others in the early church: identical with or a variety of the dalmatic. See dalmatic and leviton.-2. A similar garment, with or without a hood, formerly worn by monks.-3. A dre worn by a king at his coronation, corresponding to the clerical dalmatic. See dalmatic. coloboma (kol-o-bō mā), n.; pl. colobomata (-matä). [NL., or its lids. Colobrachia (kol-ō-brā'ki-ä), n. pl. [NL., brachia.