cassock

Example Sentences

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Although Leo is more inscrutable than Francis, Catholics are beginning to get a better sense of the man beneath the cassock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2023

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

From Scientific American • Jun. 5, 2023

“Lord have mercy,” the priest chanted as he blessed the bodies of fallen Russian soldiers with incense, his cassock buffeted by a freezing wind.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2023

In summertime I would abandon adolescence to put the black cassock of mourning over a light summer shirt.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez