cassock

noun

cas·sock ˈka-sək

: a close-fitting ankle-length garment worn especially in Roman Catholic and Anglican churches by the clergy and by laypersons assisting in services

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Theology gathers its cassock skirts and anxiously casts Simon out as a magician or a sorcerer. —

James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024 His cassock fluttered; his crucifix reflected the sun, or the camera’s flash. —

Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024 Aka, who grew up in Ivory Coast before attending Catholic schools in Paris and Provence, France, recalls going to church with his grandmother and admiring the priests’ cassocks. —

Nicole Demarco Dalya Benor Caitie Kelly Juan A. Ramírez Monica Mendal Janet Siroto, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024 This approach demands that those who were once secular priests—the leaders of the philanthropic sector—abandon their cassocks and accept the mantle of the heretic. —

Mark Malloch-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cassock