Usage of "clerical dress"

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Clothing prescribed for clergy performing specific roles.

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Examples for "vestment"

The intruder wore a dark-coloured vestment; a low-crowned hat surmounted his figure. 
 Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 

He places on his left arm the maniple, a short, narrow vestment. 
 Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 / An Explanation of the Baltimore Cat... 

My heart recognises, through the outer vestment of apparent insanity, the inner adaptability. 
 'That Very Mab' 

He sighed, and pulled a small folded parchment from his vestment. 
 Sister of the dead 

Carry your wolf within your most secret chamber, and put his vestment therein. 
 French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France 

Clerical vestments were developed from two pieces of ancient Roman dress-thetunic and the toga. 
 Early European History 

"The land isn't blessed; it isn't sacred." He smoothed his clerical vestments. 
 The notorious scoundrel 

He found Opal, and a tall, handsome young man in clerical vestments, sitting together upon the broad vine-shaded veranda. 
 One Day / A sequel to 'Three Weeks' 

Under the lid walks an aged priest clad in his clerical vestments, representing the dead Christ being carried to his tomb. 
 Russia, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers 

Those churches were very odd-allviolently disavowed by their respective denominations elsewhere, and apparently using the queerest kind of ceremonials and clerical vestments. 
 The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft 

Ús de clerical dress en anglès

To us his young friends his clerical dress showed dignity and commanded respect. 
 The Irish Times 

A man in a clerical dress approached them, walking quite rapidly. 
 By the Light of the Soul: A Novel 

But that, the vicar reflected, was impossible on account of his clerical dress. 
 A Tale of a Lonely Parish 

However, this is no excuse for abandoning clerical dress and hiding behind lay attire. 
 The Irish Times 

One morning Mr. Strathmore sat in his study talking to a visitor in clerical dress. 
 The Puritans 

He disliked clerical dress and he rarely wore it. 
 If Winter Comes 

What's he going to do about not wearing clerical dress when he has to wear gaiters? 
 If Winter Comes 

Three or four wore clerical dress. 
 The Saint 

Then his big face and clerical dress seemed somehow to reassure her, and she began again, though reluctantly. 
 Robert Elsmere 

Granny, he wore his clerical dress. 
 The Man Between: An International Romance 

The newcomer stood silent a minute, two minutes; a young man in clerical dress, boyish, with gray, serious eyes. 
 The Lifted Bandage 

At this point, a short digression may be permitted on the subject of clerical dress during the last century. 
 The English Church in the Eighteenth Century 

In the room below a man of forty-five sat writing at a desk- averytall, broad-shoulderedman, in clerical dress. 
 The Broken Road 

The young man in his clerical dress stood as he listened, with eyes wide like a child's, fixed on the speaker. 
 The Militants / Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fig... 

How many men to-day will say what they really think before a man in clerical dress, or a dignitary however trivial? 
 The Jesus of History 

During the prayer the door was softly opened: a gentleman in clerical dress entered on tiptoe and knelt down next to Mr Didlum. 
 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 