: 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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Recent Examples on the WebFather Andrew, the youthful priest, sometimes changed out of his black cassock into street clothes and drove military materiel some 700 miles across Ukraine, to the front. George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022 In Ivankiv, north of Kyiv, a priest wearing his cassock was pulled out of his car and shot at a checkpoint where his body lay for several days, Ukrainian Orthodox officials said. Ian Lovett, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2022 Kester pulled his bright vestment over his military cassock, and Skorbach placed a brand-new green helmet on the table beside the candle. Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 10 July 2022 Maximien, still devoutly Catholic, arranged for a home audience with his priest, a Beninese man in a white cassock, introducing me as his grandson. David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 The mantle is only attached to the cassock in two places, explained Dario Piccioni, an employee accustomed to selling garments to cardinals and bishops at the Vatican.The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021 Al-Sistani, who rarely appears in public or even on television, wore black robes and a black turban, in simple contrast to Francis’ all-white cassock. Nicole Winfield And Qassim Abdul-zahra, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2021 Al-Sistani, who rarely appears in public — even on television — wore black robes and a black turban, in simple contrast to Francis’ all-white cassock.Time, 6 Mar. 2021 Al-Sistani, who rarely appears in public — even on television — wore black robes and a black turban, in simple contrast to Francis’ all-white cassock.Fox News, 6 Mar. 2021 See More