monastic habit

“His calamities were imbittered by the gradual extinction of sight; his confinement was rendered each day more rigorous; and during the absence and sickness of his grandson, his inhuman keepers, by the threats of instant death, compelled him to exchange the purple for the monastic habit and profession.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“He was of royal lineage, his father being the saintly Theodoric, King of Thomond, who towards the close of his life received the monastic habit from St. Colman at Lismore.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

“Constantinople; and his poverty was alleviated by a pension of fifty thousand aspers, till a monastic habit and a tardy death released Palaeologus from an earthly master.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire