ephod

plural ephods

1. JudaismbiblicalA priestly vestment, without sleeves, worn girdled at the waist.

   1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James): Exodus, 28, vi-viii, And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

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   1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James): Hosea, 3, iv, For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

   From this it appears that at least towards the close of the Exile, the Urim and Thummim were considered as something distinct from the ephod of the high priest and the gems with which it was adorned.

   1913, “Urim and Thummim”, in Catholic Encyclopedia

   Like a levite’s robe of plain linen the faded worn soutane draped the kneeling figure of one whom the canonicals or the bellbordered ephod would irk and trouble.

   1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC