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[[Image:Death of St Bede.jpg|thumb|270px|''The Death of St. [[Bede]]'', the monastic clergy are wearing (long) surplices over their [[cowl]]s]]
The '''surplice''' (Late Latin ''superpelliceum'', from ''super'', "over" and ''pellis'', "fur") is a non-liturgical [[vestment]] used by in traditional Western worship. The surplice has the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton material. It continues in use by various Christian communions of the West (particularly the [[Roman Catholic Church]]), as well as in the Orthodox Church's [[Western Rite]].
The surplice descended from the Greek alb, which it replaced in the North before Rome's schism from Orthodoxy. Eventually ==Ornamentation==The surplice apparently seldom received rich ornamentation. In pictures and sculpture from the Middle Ages it was adopted elsewhere appears as a garment hanging in many folds, but otherwise plain throughout. There is a surplice at Neustift near Brixen in the WestTyrol that dates back to the twelfth (or, at least, to the thirteenth) century; it is the only medieval surplice that we possess. In recent yearsThis surplice shows geometrical ornaments in white linen embroidery on the shoulders, breast, back, and below the shoulders, where, as in the albs of the alb has same date, large full gores have been introduced inserted in the Westbody of the garment.
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