[late L., a. Gr. κολόβιον, f. κολοβ-ός curtailed.] A half-sleeved or sleeveless tunic or robe, such as was worn by the clergy of the early church, by the monks, and by kings at the ceremony of coronation. In later Eccles. use replaced by the DALMATIC.
1603. Ceremonies at Coronat. Jas. I. (1685), 8. Then the Colobium or Dalmatica is put on him.
1661. Acc. Earl Sandwich, in Mrs. Palliser, Lace, xxv. (1869), 290. The Colobium Sindonis of fine lawn laced with fine Flanders lace.
1846. Fairholt, Costume, 50. The dalmatic … took the place of the primitive colobium.
1876. Planché, Cycl. Costume, I. 422.
