Sanbenito

Eight days afterwards they were each dressed in a sanbenito, and their heads were adorned with paper mitres. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The mitre and sanbenito worn by Candide were painted with flames reversed and with devils that had neither tails nor claws; but ❋ Unknown (2007)

I was dreadfully shocked at the burning of the two Jews, and the honest Biscayan who married his godmother; but how great was my surprise, my consternation, and concern, when I beheld a figure so like Pangloss, dressed in a sanbenito and mitre! ❋ Unknown (1918)

The mitre and sanbenito worn by Candide were painted with flames reversed and with devils that had neither tails nor claws; but Dr. Pangloss's devils had both tails and claws, and his flames were upright. ❋ Unknown (1918)

They were completely purged of it, having done penance in proper form at an Auto held on the Rocio at Lisbon, candle in hand and sanbenito on their shoulders. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

"I derived the notion," he continued, "from a sanbenito in a Goya picture." ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

"Prithee, thou brown-robed fellow, how looked he in a _sanbenito_ -- that tall, fierce, black-bearded Captain that your Provincial mentions here?" ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)

Christ, the Grand Inquisitor, seated as judge; his familiars standing by ready with their implements of torture to fulfil his bidding; his fellow monks enthroned around him; his sign, the crucifix, towering from hell to heaven in sight of the universe; the whole heretical world, dressed in the sanbenito, helpless before him, awaiting their doom? ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)

The slow, dismal tolling of bells; the masked and muffled familiars; the Dominicans carrying their horrid flag, followed by the penitents behind a huge cross; the condemned ones, barefoot, clad in painted caps and the repulsive sanbenito; next the effigies of accused offenders who had escaped by flight; then, the bones of dead culprits in black coffins painted with flames and other hellish symbols; and, finally, the train closing with a host of priests and monks. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)

"Go hang thyself, coward, or, if you choose, swim out to the Spaniard, and shift from thy wet doublet and hose into a sanbenito. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)