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

The bloodstained word is painted on scarlet satin, the material of a cardinal’s cassock.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2023

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

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