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cassock

noun as in vestment

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Example Sentences

Most priests traded in their cassocks for plain black shirts with Roman collars.

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

I suggested that she try to imagine something happening to the devil, perhaps his foot tripping over his cassock or something else.

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.

At Thursday’s basilica Mass, dozens of rows of priests in simple white cassocks sat in front of rank-and-file Catholics in the packed church.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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