soutanes

• Of the missing—presumed stolen—items, the ice scraper had reappeared in its usual place, leaning next to the doorbell against Buzz Taylor's house; Father Mulhollen's soutanes were found stuffed behind the hymnals at the back of the church; and one of Little Freddie Ferguson's walkie-talkies had turned up in his mailbox. —  AHMM,May2008
• One is of an old Cardinal in the Imperial scarlet of the Caesars meeting a body of young Italian boys in purple soutanes, students evidently in some religious college, near the Church of St. John Lateran. —  Miscellanies
• The curé, with his choir boys in their little short white soutanes, red petticoats and red shoes, was just coming out of the sacristy and the procession was appearing at the bottom of the church. —  Chateau and Country Life in France
• Since the inventories ordered by the government in all the churches, most of the people have taken away their gifts in the way of vestments, soutanes, vases, etc., and the red soutanes, shoes and caps, with a handsome white satin embroidered vestment that C. gave the church when she was married, are carefully folded and put away in a safe place out of the church until better times should come After luncheon we went over to Soissons in the auto--the most enchanting drive through the forest of Villers-Cotterets--the poplar trees a line of gold and all the others taking the most lovely colours of red and brown. —  Chateau and Country Life in France
• Taking up our soutanes, therefore, and following the river-bed, we found a cavern incessantly supplied by dropping water. —  De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera

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