: an ecclesiastical garment resembling the cassock
2
: a long loose cloak worn over the rhason
called alsoexorhason
Word History
Etymology
Middle Greek rhason, a napless woolen cloth, rhason, perhaps from Latin rasus, past participle of radere to scrape, scratch, shave
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