Cassock meaning

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An ankle-length garment with a close-fitting waist and sleeves, worn by the clergy and others assisting in church services.
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A long, closefitting vestment, generally black, worn as an outer garment or under the surplice by members of the clergy, choristers, etc.
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An item of clerical clothing: a long, sheath-like, close-fitting, ankle-length robe worn by clergy members of some Christian denominations. [from 17th c.]
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Origin of cassock

  • French casaque long coat from Old French perhaps from Italian casacca from Persian kazhāgand padded garment kazh raw silk āgand stuffed
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle French casaque (“cloak”).
    From Wiktionary

Cassock Sentence Examples

  • - Anglican Priest in Cassock, Surplice, and Narrow Black Scarf.

  • The custom of wearing the cassock under the vestments is traceable in England to about the year 1400.

  • When he came to himself, a man of clerical appearance with a tuft of gray hair at the back of his head and wearing a shabby blue cassock--probably a church clerk and chanter--was holding him under the arm with one hand while warding off the pressure of the crowd with the other.

  • An Orthodox bishop, vested for the holy liturgy, wears over his cassock - (i) the rnxcipcov, or alb (q.v.); the E7nrpay,Acov, or stole (q.v.); (3) the a narrow stuff girdle clasped behind, which holds together the two vestments above named; (4) the E7 n, uaviexa, liturgical cuffs, corresponding, possibly, to the pontifical gloves of the West;' (5) the i 7rtyovarcov, a stiff lozengeshaped piece of stuff hanging at the right side by a piece of riband from the girdle or attached to the o-AKKos, the equivalent of the Western maniple (q.v.); (6) the like the Western dalmatic (q.v.), worn instead of the 4acv6Acov, or chasuble; (7) the c?µocp6pcov, the equivalent of the Western pallium (q.v.).

  • He rose, and throwing off the black cassock and hat which had formed his disguise, he packed them away in a hand-bag.

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