cassock
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Hopkins Co. offers Episcopalians a "Once-a-Year Opportunity�only 159 Poplin Knockabout Cassocks Reduced to $12," and Cox Sons & Vining advertises a "Utility Anglican Cassock" for $22.50.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Within my Closet does there hang a Cassock, Though base the weed is; twas a Shepherds, Which I presented in Lord Julio's Mask.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
Over his Cassock the Grand Master wears a Velvet Gown or Cloak when he goes to Church on Solemn Festivals.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus
Cassock," says Mr Steevens, "signifies a horseman's loose coat, and is used in that sense by the writers of the age of Shakespeare.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
He always entertained the kindliest feelings of a brother for his sincere friend, Doctor Cassock, who used to drop in with any new number of the Spectator, and enjoy it.
From Geoffery Gambado A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism and Melancholy Splenetic Humours by Bunbury, William Henry
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