cassock
Example Sentences
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Although Leo is more inscrutable than Francis, Catholics are beginning to get a better sense of the man beneath the cassock.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
The cardinal - in red mozzetta and cassock - is shown blessing the body of the late Pope during the rite of the declaration of death.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025
I suggested that she try to imagine something happening to the devil, perhaps his foot tripping over his cassock or something else.
From Scientific American • Jun. 5, 2023
“Lord have mercy,” the priest chanted as he blessed the bodies of fallen Russian soldiers with incense, his cassock buffeted by a freezing wind.
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2023
He was laughing, putting on his glasses after wiping them on his cassock, his vision—like mine—clean at last.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
