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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That is also evident in the memoir – for instance, when the pope explains how he was told to wear white trousers, rather than black, to go under his new white papal cassock. —

Christopher Lamb, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025 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 See all Example Sentences for cassock