canonicals
Britishplural noun
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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
He took pains to return our visit the next day, but came to our bohio in full canonicals.
From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Julia Ward Howe
He was grave and silent; in the spirit, though naturally not in the flesh, he wore full canonicals; the consciousness of his office was about him.
From The Great Miss Driver by Anthony Hope
The rector, in full canonicals, stood within the chancel.
From Her Mother's Secret by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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