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Definition of Cassocks
1. cassock [n] - See also: cassock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cassocks
| cast cast-iron cast-iron plant cast-off cast-off(a) cast a chill |
Literary usage of Cassocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel (1893)
"By religion we live in God ; but all these quarrels lead to nothing but life with
men or with cassocks. There is therefore no equivalence between the two ..."
2. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"of Arts, except at St. Mary's Church and at Congregations, when they wear cassocks
and black silk ruffs, and carry the Statutes of the University, ..."
3. From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North by Ewart Scott Grogan, Arthur H. Sharp (1900)
"... IN SCARLET cassocks. shore of the lake: such was Ujiji, the meeting-place of
Stanley and Livingstone, and the heart of the great slave-raiding ulcer. ..."
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