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the little skullcap that quietly tells popes from cardinals from priests by sheer color coding
means A small, close-fitting skullcap, especially the ecclesiastical one worn by Catholic clergy, where its color marks rank.
from From French calotte, a small cap, likely a diminutive of cale, a kind of close-fitting headdress or coif. The word also drifted into geometry and anatomy, where a calotte is any little dome or cap-shaped portion — the skull's own crown of bone, for instance — keeping faith with its small, rounded sense.
- color rank
- White for popes, red for cardinals, purple for bishops
- name origin
- From French, meaning a small cap or crown
- removal etiquette
- Worn even during Mass, but removed for consecration
- beyond church
- Also names the rounded top of a dome architecturally
- anatomy too
- Describes the skull's cranial vault in dissection
svalbard global seed vault — underground seed bank in arctic norway storing 1 million crop varieties
greenland ice sheet — massive polar ice dome covering 80% of greenland, melting rapidly since 2000
antarctic ice sheet — world's largest ice calotte containing 26.5 million cubic kilometers of ice