Definitions for "Dalmatic"
A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.
A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.
Mass vestment usually of costly fabric with wide sleeves. It was worn by bishops under the chasuble, and by deacons as the uppermost garment.