Cassocks

Even the services themselves are a dreary business, because he insists on the whole thing being choral; and little boys in short cassocks, with stocking-legs underneath, howl the responses and monotone the prayers to the accompaniment of a loud raw organ. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

Then he asked about the priest in the coat and also asked how many priests come into the Store wearing cassocks, which is not many. ❋ Terry Nelson (2006)

He'd have seen the dog's dinner that men in cassocks were making of what could have been a brilliant PR opportunity, and He'd have wept. ❋ Christina Patterson (2011)

Readers will probably notice the servers are not wearing cassocks but scout uniforms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In terms of the ornaments of the liturgy, sometimes the altar is set up in a way that is untidy, such as crooked candles that could easily be straightened or unevenly spaced candlesticks that a few more minutes of preparation could rectify; unkempt vestments, altar linens, cassocks and surplices for servers are sometimes also in evidence, as are servers visibly wearing informal clothing beneath their cassock. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The main reason is that those ceremonies have been organized at the last minute and it has been difficult to find were the cassocks and surplices are kept if there are any. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Why do Christian priests wear cassocks and the nuns wear wimples: because it was the style when the church finally gained its true strength. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The new cardinals wore scarlet cassocks - to signify their willingness to shed blood for the church. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Black cassocks representing the two priests who perished in the al-Qaida assault hung from a wall. ❋ AP (2010)

Their red robes, the ermine in which they wrap themselves like furry cats, the courts in which they administer justice, the fleurs-de-lis, and all such august apparel were necessary; if the physicians had not their cassocks and their mules, if the doctors had not their square caps and their robes four times too wide, they would never have duped the world, which cannot resist so original an appearance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because civil law prohibits nuns and priests from wearing habits and cassocks on the street, the more liberal orders began to defy the law by wearing their clerical garb. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Her name was Sister Marta, though we were told to call her Aunt Marta, Marta Neni, for the State frowned on her retrograde Catholicism and priests and nuns were prohibited from wearing their cassocks and habits outside church. ❋ KATI MARTON (2009)

And there I saw in midsummer a group of persons in cassocks, so I asked my secretary to inform himself about this group. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Have you seen [Mickey]’s latest?” “[Oh shit], yeah! A right [cassock wearer].” ❋ AKACroatalin (2016)

[Choirboy]: The Reverend has asked me to stay behind and help him to find some coins that fell off the collection plate and rolled under the alter. [Alterboy]: Don't do it, trust me dude, he's a total [cassock lifter]. ❋ Blue Cawdrey (2004)