surplice

• I remember turning my pinafore wrong side forwards in order to represent a surplice, and preaching to my mother's maids in the kitchen as nearly as possible in Sir Herbert's manner one Sunday morning when the rest of the family were at church. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
• "You'll wear a surplice, then, and a purple stripe around your neck, and sing the prayers, like the man I saw in Boston. —  The Brentons
• For more than a hundred years the surplice was apparently unknown there, sacraments administered without the proper ornaments and vessels, parts of the liturgy omitted, marriages, baptisms, churchings, and funerals solemnized in private houses. —  History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6)
• The figure is represented as vested in cassock, surplice, and stole, with the hands joined as in prayer, in white statuary marble, and resting on a moulded base of Purbeck marble. —  Ely Cathedral
• The ministers presenting it asked that they might be permitted to preach without wearing the white gown called a surplice, to baptize without making the sign of the cross on the child's forehead, and to perform the marriage ceremony without using the ring. —  The Leading Facts of English History

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