What is "cassocks"

Usage examples of "cassocks".

Gris and Bleu lunged out of the brush into the confusion of smoke, screams, and flailing arms, their wide cassocks billowing, rings at the ready.

The cardinals wore their black cassocks adorned with a red sash, as required.

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.

Robes and cassocks and head pieces symbols of the highest offices in the Church swayed and were turned, giving the illusion of a constantly moving fresco.

Secreted in these posi tions were the cassocks they would slip over their uniforms.

They stood in the corner waiting for him, whisper-ing together, occasionally laughing, newly-washed, hair combed, bright in their scarlet cassocks and white cottas.

The four acolytes in their scarlet cassocks and white cottas reminded him nostalgically of his youth.

He took off his cope as the boys got out of their cassocks and into their street clothes.

All that morning there was the rattle of beads and rustle of starched cassocks as Vatican functionaries rushed back to their offices to monitor their encrypted net lines and to wait for memos from above.

To the left of the State Oracle, their faces largely blocked from my view by the gilded pillars of the Dalai Lama's throne, stand five emissaries from the Pax -- I can make out a short man in cardinal's red, three forms in black cassocks, and at least one military uniform.

Besides the Dalai Lama, his monk servants, the Lord Chamberlain, the Regent, the State Oracle, the Crier, the short Cardinal, the three men in black cassocks, there was a woman in a black-and-red Pax Fleet uniform.

Vilibaldo insisted they change out of their sodden cassocks into something warm and dry, producing good quality, simple tunics and cloaks in which they wrapped themselves.

Kit insisted they put on their wet cassocks again, then Malcolm took one side, Kit the other, and they began hearing confessions.

The rusty alpaca cassocks with their frayed linings, the worn black leather bindings of the books with their metal clasps, the dull-green plants with their carefully watered leaves and soil, and, above all, the abrupt, regular beat of the pendulum, all spoke to me intimately of some new life hitherto unknown to me--a life of unity and prayer, of calm, restful happiness.