canonicals

British  

/ kəˈnɒnɪkəlz /

plural noun

1. the vestments worn by clergy when officiating

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Example Sentences

They sat down in, armchairs facing the altar and their vice-chairman and secretary, the only ones present wearing canonicals, Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson of Chicago and the Rev. Charles Laban Pardee.

From Time Magazine Archive

Originator of the plan was Kent School's high-church headmaster, Father Frederick Herbert Sill, who coaches crew in his white cassock and sometimes, in black canonicals, substitutes as coxswain.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reverend gentleman was in full canonicals; he united in himself at that moment both the paternal and the maternal authority.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór

Then with a courteous shake of the hand, stately as though he were a bishop in canonicals, Arnold Jackson took leave of his guest.

From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

The rose-trees appeared to me like enchanted princesses, whose fate I bitterly bewailed; the sunflowers were Catholic priests in full canonicals, and the dahlias Polish maidservants with red head-dresses.

From The Wish A Novel by Sudermann, Hermann