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US
/ˈkæsək/
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[ UK /kˈæsək/ ]
[ UK /kˈæsək/ ]
NOUN
- a black garment reaching down to the ankles; worn by priests or choristers
How To Use cassock In A Sentence
- Inwardly glowing with impatience, Arthur yet saw the necessity of obeying his guide; and when he had pulled the long and loose upper vestment from the old man, he stood before him in a cassock of black serge, befitting his order and profession, but begirt, not with a suitable sash such as clergymen wear, but with a most uncanonical buff-belt, supporting a short two-edged sword, calculated alike to stab and to smite. Anne of Geierstein
- His congregation heeded his advice, but Bould himself came out, clad in a cassock, to explain that the PCC's decision had not been put to the congregation and he did not know how many would go over to Rome. Church of England parish sings battle hymns as it plans move to Rome
- Touched an extra folded cassock, underclothing, a silver holy medal on a nail driven into the frosted gray wood next to the window. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
- He explains the tradition where friends and fellow clergy help buy their friend's first ceremonial vestments or cassock, as well as the pectoral cross, ring, zucchetto skullcap or miter hat. USATODAY.com - John Paul's longtime tailor pays tribute to the pontiff
- His black frock-coat, streaked with stains of acids and sirups, was much too wide for his lean little person, and looked like a shabby old cassock; and the man spoke with a strong Polish accent which gave the childlike character to his thin voice, the lisping note and intonations of a young thing learning to speak. Pierre And Jean
- Among others, there is an account of his exchanging the bishop's cassock for the buff jerkin of a ballad singer, and selling out his stock of ballads at a tavern.
- I handed in my cassock, the black and white outfit that had raised our dog's hackles and set him to barking when I first modelled it at home for my astonished family, who had stopped attending years earlier.
- Serious students from across the world in black cassocks and dangling crosses file to and from classes, but they're not entirely back in medieval times.
- On the live Bishop the silver pectoral cross rose and fell on the purple cassock.
- It is growing apparent from your vicar's shortening sermons that it is becoming uncomfortably warm weather in which to wear a cassock.