Word: cassock
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...chancel door opened and a man in black cassock entered and gravely sat down. He raised his eyes--serious eyes in a face deepened through experience and thought. It was Bishop Brent whose name is associated with man work in the Philippines. The empty pews appeared still emptier...
...clergyman educated at Cambridge and following the fortune of other clergymen, came to Massachusetts in the early period, he was probably a Puritan of their stamp, that is. not a dissenter. Puritan ministers of that day are represented in pictures as wearing a somewhat closely fitting cloak, covering a cassock, with a broad linen collar and a skull cap. No mistake could be made in regard to the garments covering the lower part of body...