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In the vestry, surrounded by racks of well-pressed white surplices and brightly coloured vestments, I met Ian and Paul, one of the couples he has blessed.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025
What they objected to in the established church may seem fussy and trivial today: the wearing of surplices, the exchange of wedding rings, making the sign of the cross at baptism.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2011
Behind them with military medal on their peaceful white surplices marched a delegation of Wartime clergymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then followed, seriatim, colorbearers, resplendent church flags, cherubic altar boys ranging in size upwards like steps, seminarians four abreast in black cassocks with white surplices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surpliced Choir.—When the body of singers of the Church service is composed of boys and men they are vested in cassocks and surplices or cottas and given a place in the Chancel.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
