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cassock

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A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.

A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.

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The man was fat. His belly arrived like an advance guard, heralding the bulk to come, huge shoulders, a surplus chin. His white cassock had settled over his body like a tarpaulin dropped on a blimp. James K. Morrow

The devil climbs the bell tower in a priest's cassock. Spanish Proverb

Brinton, C., 1916, page 16 He favored earth or muted tones, including maroon, black, and grey, with the exception of colorful folk attire or the bright red cassock in some paintings. Source: Internet

Dressed in a black cassock, he was seen gleefully running into the church and doing not one, but two cartwheels before running out of shot. Source: Internet

Instead, writes Bagliani, the first document that mentions the Pope’s white cassock dates from 1274. Source: Internet

His medieval appearance – black cassock, black monastic hat (latterly a Georgian hat replete with crosses), with a beard resembling, it was once said, a rampant clematis – cloaked his enthusiasm for the latest electronic devices. Source: Internet

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