soutane

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Half the court was composed of love-making ecclesiastics, and the soutane was a kind of diploma for wit and wickedness.

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  1. noun A cassock, especially one that buttons up and down the front.

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  • A French abbé, as silken in manner and speech as his own soutane, bowls over all my prejudices of creed and custom, as I watch him rule with the lightest of hands and the softest of voices a brood of termagant small boys; to turn from this to a game of billiards, and from that to the Merry Widow waltz on the piano, that we may dance. —  Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
  • She caught at the skirt of my soutane, and broke into sobbing My father, let the Blessed One wear them ever, or else help me to give them back You will now guess, monsieur, on what business I have been visiting England. —  News from the Duchy
  • Half the court was composed of love-making ecclesiastics, and the soutane was a kind of diploma for wit and wickedness. —  The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
  • Mark liked him from the first moment he saw him pacing the Vicarage garden in a soutane, buckled shoes, and beaver hat, and he could not understand why Mr. Ogilvie, who had often laughed about Dorward's eccentricity, should now that he had an opportunity of enjoying it once more be so cross about his friend's arrival and so ready to hand him over to Mark to be entertained Just like Ogilvie," said Dorward confidentially, when he and Mark went for a walk on the afternoon of his arrival. —  The Altar Steps
  • His black soutane, cut like the woolen gown of our grandmothers, was soaking wet, and his low rough shoes were muddy. —  White Shadows in the South Seas
 

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  1. French, alteration (influenced by French sous, under) of obsolete sottane, from Italian sottana, from sotto, under, from Latin subtus, from sub; see upo in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French soutane, Old French sotane = Spanish sotana = Portuguese sotana, sotaina = Italian sottana, undershirt, from Middle Latin subtana (also subtaneum), an under-cassock, from Latin subtus, beneath, under: see sub-.
 

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