cassock

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Hopkins Co. offers Episcopalians a "Once-a-Year Opportunity�only 159 Poplin Knockabout Cassocks Reduced to $12," and Cox Sons & Vining advertises a "Utility Anglican Cassock" for $22.50.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within my Closet does there hang a Cassock, Though base the weed is; twas a Shepherds, Which I presented in Lord Julio's Mask.

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

In the will of Robert Saltonstall, made in 1650, he names a "Plush Cassock," but cloth cassocks were the commonest wear.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse

Cassock has dropped from the front, and Judex, an iron-gray, has the lead.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various

His Holiness, who was in the Middle, wore a white Cassock.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von