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Bishop's vestment
Answer for the clue "Bishop's vestment ", 6 letters:
rochet
Word definitions for rochet in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A rochet is a white vestment generally worn by a Roman Catholic or Anglican bishop in choir dress . It is unknown in the Eastern churches. The rochet is similar to a surplice , except that the sleeves are narrower. In the Roman Catholic tradition, the rochet ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rochet \Roch"et\, n. [Probably corrupted fr. F. rouget the red gurnet, from rouge red. CF. Rouge .] (Zo["o]l.) The red gurnard, or gurnet. See Gurnard .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church. 2 A frock or outer garment worn in the ...
Usage examples of rochet.
The audience room in the Vatican was a bit drafty, as always, but the Pope was well wrapped up in rochet, mozzetta, gaiters and bootees.
Lying neafly along the back of an overstuffed green tilde fa was an afghan, hand tilde rocheted in a zigzag patLern that incorporated broad forest green stripes with riarrower bands of wine red and cream.
Rochet kept tabs on an evolving list of headers, taglines, and catchphrases that were playing and propagating well.
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Valendrea himself had supervised one of the last chores an hour earlier when the House of Gammarelli arrived with five boxes containing white linen cassocks, red silk slippers, rochets, mozzettas, cotton stockings, and skullcaps in varying sizes, all with the backs and hems unsewn, the sleeves unfinished.
Clad in his stole, scarlet chimere, white rochet, and black cassock, he wore a black skull-cap set low upon the forehead, and having flaps that covered the ears and neck.
Then appeared the chaplains in surplices and grey amices, who were followed, after a short interval, by ten bishops, mitred, clothed in scarlet, with rochets and copes, and each carrying a crosier.