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chasuble

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chas·u·ble  (chz-bl, chzh-, chs-)
n.
A long sleeveless vestment worn over the alb by a priest during services.
[French, from Old French, from Late Latin casubla, hooded garment, from *casupula, diminutive of casa, house.]
chasuble [chazz-yew-bl]
Noun
Christianity a long sleeveless robe worn by a priest when celebrating Mass [Late Latin casubla garment with a hood]
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Noun1.chasublechasuble - a long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass
vestment - gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy


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le Cure, attired in his handsome chasuble and walking under a canopy of red velvet supported by four men.
A Simple Soul by Flaubert, Gustave View in context
Two lackeys of the official torturer bathed the bleeding shoulders of the patient, anointed them with some unguent which immediately closed all the wounds, and threw upon his back a sort of yellow vestment, in cut like a chasuble.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
Having freed his short plump hands from beneath his chasuble he had folded them over his fat body and protruding stomach, and fingering the cords of his vestments was smilingly saying something to a military man in the uniform of a general of the Imperial suite, with its insignia and shoulder-knots which Father Sergius's experienced eye at once recognized.
Father Sergius by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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