Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Clothed with a cassock.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Clothed with a cassock.

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  • adjective Dressed in a cassock.

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  • adjective dressed in a cassock

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Examples

  • Painting and dance also played a role: Aided by skillful lighting, the director created some striking tableaux that looked like Old Master paintings, and his ­choreographic style with crowds made the final massacre, with cassocked men slitting the throats of women, into a horrific dance of death.

    A Triumphant Massacre 2009

  • He towered over the astonished American and waved a cassocked arm toward our host.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • He towered over the astonished American and waved a cassocked arm toward our host.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Leah took a moment to look around and get her bearings before following the white-cassocked Father Gerard and the others on a tour of the compound.

    Winter Soldier Carroll, Marisa 1999

  • In those same colleges, there is a plague of cassocked thugs and mercenary professors.

    CLOSING OF REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH STUDENTS CONGRESS 1961

  • This monstrous deed shows the inner working of the enemies of the revolution, of the cassocked myrmidons.

    RURAL TEACHER GRADUATES 1961

  • That is why some of these cassocked henchmen, far from the true preachings of Christ, began giving counterrevolutionary sermons in the churches and writing parochial pamphlets that the very catholics, the very faithful, received with the national anthem on their lips.

    ANNIVERSARY OF THE STUDENT MARTRYS OF 1871 1960

  • Then his eye caught a singular decoration fastened to the door, a paper silhouette, blackened with charcoal, the shape of a cassocked priest.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

  • The Parson was a cassocked whirlwind in his wrath.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • Bringing up the rear two cassocked priests served to give this pageantry a touch of prophetic grimness.

    In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams 1922

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