clericals

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His own Christian Democrats include monarchists and republicans, rebels and traditionalists, free enterprisers and welfare staters, clericals and anticlericals.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is when Beaumont, 33, puts on his clericals and drives to St. Stephen's Church in Westminster to deliver the sermon or officiate at Holy Communion.

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Haunted by France's humiliating defeat in the war of 1870 enraged clericals and anticlericals, lurking royalists and Bonapartists, wild radicals and Republicans turned the parliamentary process into a dismal puppet show.

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It was a rare domestic interlude, for the figure in black clericals with the silver pectoral cross* is more familiar these days in Washington or London or Africa than in New Rochelle.

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Mr. Cooper had to cough so he could pretend not to be laughing, and he winked at Johnny in spite of the dignity of his black clericals, white bands, and great woolly wig.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes