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: a close-fitting ankle-length garment worn especially in Roman Catholic and Anglican churches by the clergy and by laypersons assisting in services
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Image Image Throughout, Bob, as his American friends still call him, or Roberto, as his Spanish and Italian ones do, has remained consistently low-key, a gray man in a world of outsized personalities cloaked in sumptuous scarlet cassocks, an earnest admin of the apostles.
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Mitra Taj, New York Times, 17 May 2025
The Argentine pope, who contended with Catholic Church traditionalists opposed to his reforms, was known for his warm demeanor and for spurning any kind of grandeur: Living at a guesthouse in the Vatican, taking public transportation, wearing plain white cassocks.
—Susan Miller, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2025
People can make their own pope jerseys at the team store (some have even used Roman numerals for the XIV), but the team won’t be selling chintzy T-shirts or making the players wear City Connect cassocks.
—Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Father Roman, a distinguished figure with curly black hair and floor-sweeping black cassock, let us in.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
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Mitra Taj, New York Times, 17 May 2025
The Argentine pope, who contended with Catholic Church traditionalists opposed to his reforms, was known for his warm demeanor and for spurning any kind of grandeur: Living at a guesthouse in the Vatican, taking public transportation, wearing plain white cassocks.
—Susan Miller, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2025
People can make their own pope jerseys at the team store (some have even used Roman numerals for the XIV), but the team won’t be selling chintzy T-shirts or making the players wear City Connect cassocks.
—Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Father Roman, a distinguished figure with curly black hair and floor-sweeping black cassock, let us in.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
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“Cassock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cassock. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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cassock
noun
cas·sock
ˈkas-ək 
: a close-fitting ankle-length garment worn by clergy (as in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches)
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