Antiq. Also in L. form. [ad. med.L. supertunica: see SUPER- 3 and TUNIC sb.] An outer tunic; spec. the vestment worn above the dalmatic (or tunicle) by a sovereign at his coronation.
1625–6. Coronation Chas. I. (1892), 36. The Deane of Westminster goeth on araying ye King. 1. With ye Supertunica, or close Pall.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Diary, 23 April 1661. Then [at the Coronation] was … put on … the cobbium, syndon [i.e., colobium sindonis], or dalmatic, and over this a supertunic of cloth of gold.
1843. Lytton, Last Barons, IV. iii. He looks brave in his gay supertunic.
1860. Fairholt, Costume Eng. (ed. 2), 83. King John [in his effigy] … wears a supertunic of crimson embroidered with gold.
1891. Proc. Soc. Antiq., 15 Jan., 216. The rest of the costume consists of supertunic and kirtle.
