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Chasuble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A long sleeveless vestment worn over the alb by a priest during services.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Eccles., a sleeveless vestment, originally circular in outline, but in medieval and modern use of an elliptical shape, or modified from this so as to be nearly rectangular, and provided with an aperture in the center through which to pass the head.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass

Word Usage

"The ornament which the bishop is wearing above the chasuble is the rationale, an episcopal humeral, a counterpart of the pallium, and like it worn over the chasuble."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

vestment

Variant

chasible chesible

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