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
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
Six feet one and heavyset, with a slight stoop and closely cropped white hair, Moretta favors black button-down shirts or white guayaberas when not in his priestly cassock.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 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
Then Father Aristide, looking small and frail in his white cassock, walked to the pulpit.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
