pontificals

noun

the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)

adjective

puffed up with vanity

denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops

proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles

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