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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as cassock.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a long gown with sleeves and buttons at the front

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Eccl. Costume) A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests

Etymologies

  1. French, from Spanish sotana, or Italian sottana, Latin subtana, from Latin subtus below, beneath, from sub under. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, alteration (influenced by French sous, under) of obsolete sottane, from Italian sottana, from sotto, under, from Latin subtus, from sub. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • knitandpurl "The youthful populace of Dublin are being sucked out of the churches by the ideological vacuum; on to the streets, then into the bars and restaurants which have colonised the city centre. Where once burly men in soutanes enforced the creed, now burly men in black overcoats enforce the guest list."
    Psychogeograpy by Will Self, 102 Oct 16, 2010

  • knitandpurl "He saw the orthodox priest arriving from the neighboring village after a long hike over hills and through rocky gullies. His floor-length black soutane was spattered up to the knee with yellow clay and pollen from the broom blossoms."
    Don Juan: His Own Version by Peter Handke, translated by Krishna Winston, p 43 Apr 14, 2010

  • reesetee Sounds like a good time. ;-) Mar 14, 2009

  • chained_bear "'We see women flogging saints' statues,' Ozouf reports. 'Priests' soutanes drop to reveal the dress of the sans-culottes; nuns dance the carmagnole. A cardinal and a whore walk on either side of the coffin of Despotism.' News of revolutionary victories was often greeted with firecrackers, drums, singing, and dancing in the streets. 'They are like madmen who ought to be tied up, or rather like bacchantes,' the mayor of Leguillac remarked of the local revolutionaries, while the siegneur de Montbrun observed with distaste that 'they danced around like Hurons and Iroquois.'"
    —Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006), 110 Mar 13, 2009

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