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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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His cassock fluttered; his crucifix reflected the sun, or the camera’s flash.
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Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
Aka, who grew up in Ivory Coast before attending Catholic schools in Paris and Provence, France, recalls going to church with his grandmother and admiring the priests’ cassocks.
—Nicole Demarco Dalya Benor Caitie Kelly Juan A. Ramírez Monica Mendal Janet Siroto, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
This approach demands that those who were once secular priests—the leaders of the philanthropic sector—abandon their cassocks and accept the mantle of the heretic.
—Mark Malloch-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2024
The bloodstained word is painted on scarlet satin, the material of a cardinal’s cassock.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
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Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
Aka, who grew up in Ivory Coast before attending Catholic schools in Paris and Provence, France, recalls going to church with his grandmother and admiring the priests’ cassocks.
—Nicole Demarco Dalya Benor Caitie Kelly Juan A. Ramírez Monica Mendal Janet Siroto, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
This approach demands that those who were once secular priests—the leaders of the philanthropic sector—abandon their cassocks and accept the mantle of the heretic.
—Mark Malloch-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2024
The bloodstained word is painted on scarlet satin, the material of a cardinal’s cassock.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
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“Cassock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cassock. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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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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