abbate's

There was a tone of politely suppressed amusement in the abbate's voice; and after a moment's pause, in which we felt our awful experience slipping and sliding away from us, we ventured to say, "You don't mean that those are _not_ the veritable Ecelino prisons?"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

If you must go into the water, I wish you had worn your abbate's dress.

A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878

There was one time, when I was younger and in the subdiaconate orders, that I put off the priest's dress altogether, and wore citizen's clothes, not an abbate's suit like this.

A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878

There was a tone of politely suppressed amusement in the abbate's voice; and after a moment's pause, in which we felt our awful experience slipping and sliding away from us, we ventured to say, "You don't mean that those are _not_ the veritable Ecelino prisons?"

Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

"My entanglement with Miriam's misfortunes, and the good abbate's mistaken hope of a proselyte, seem to me a sufficient clew to the whole mystery."

The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Your _abbate's_ dress isn't acceptable, you see. "

A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878