Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Ecclesiastical An ankle-length garment with a close-fitting waist and sleeves, worn by the clergy and others assisting in church services.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any loose robe or outer coat, but particularly a military one.
- n. A long clerical coat, buttoned over the breast and reaching to the feet, and confined at the waist by a broad sash called a circline. In the Roman Catholic Church its color varies with the dignity of the wearer: priests wear black; bishops, purple; cardinals, scarlet; and popes, white. In the Anglican Church black is worn by all the three orders of the clergy, but bishops upon state occasions often wear purple.
Wiktionary
- n. An item of clerical clothing: a long, sheath-like, close-fitting, ankle-length robe worn by clergy members of some Christian denominations.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.
- n. A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a black garment reaching down to the ankles; worn by priests or choristers
Etymologies
- French casaque, long coat, from Old French, perhaps from Italian casacca, from Persian kazhāgand, padded garment : kazh, raw silk + āgand, stuffed.
Examples
“I find thought that the cassock is as much a reminder to me of my call as a sign for others.”
“All the niceties of ritual were observed -- the hand-candle, the attendants in cassock and ferraiolo -- and the choir sung unaccompanied, and also to the accompaniment of the organ and a violin.”
Solemn Pontifical Mass and Other Important Liturgical Events in New York
“I noticed that his cassock was a little frayed at the sleeves and short in the skirt.”
Incubus
“His cassock was a good one, and his hat, though dusty, shapely and new.”
“a cassock was a mark for the insults and outrages of soldiers and”
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
“Every one wore a kind of cassock of the brown coarse material; a few were girdled with belts of skin, having well-wrought metal buckles.”
“First, a jokey panel drops down behind him, forcing a cheap laugh from the audience right in the middle of his lovely "dream" aria; later, as a novice priest, he must sing the long, impassioned church scene wearing a transparent black chiffon cassock over satin trousers.”
The Wall Street Journal: In 'Manon,' Best to Close Your Eyes
“In terms of the ornaments of the liturgy, sometimes the altar is set up in a way that is untidy, such as crooked candles that could easily be straightened or unevenly spaced candlesticks that a few more minutes of preparation could rectify; unkempt vestments, altar linens, cassocks and surplices for servers are sometimes also in evidence, as are servers visibly wearing informal clothing beneath their cassock.”
“His congregation heeded his advice, but Bould himself came out, clad in a cassock, to explain that the PCC's decision had not been put to the congregation and he did not know how many would go over to Rome.”
The Guardian: Church of England parish sings battle hymns as it plans move to Rome
“In urban areas, the pews only fill when there's a popular church school, and pushy mums are sniffing round the vicar's cassock (dads generally opt out of this game).”
The Guardian: Britain's illiberal attitude to the church has driven me away
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cassock’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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End in -ock
Inspired by fbharjo (see spitchcock).
spitchcock, hillock, willock, peacock, pajock, penock, yapock, sycock, bittock, bawcock, burrock, cammock and 168 more...
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
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Ecclesiastical Vestments
Names of articles of clothing and paraphernalia worn by or pertaining to the clergy in former and modern times. Trappings, uniforms, call them what you will. Because the term dog collar, once-remov...
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religion
who is this god person, anyway? (--Douglas Adams)
sachristy, vestry, diocese, papal, cardinal, pope, polygamy, seven, father, chaplain, vestments, blessing and 227 more...
hernesheir The Roman cassock has 33 buttons. Dec 9, 2011