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

To give greater weight and solemnity to the act he decided to attend in person at the bar of the House, at the head of his clergy, all in canonicals.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

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

Both our priests, the father Bartolome de Olmedo, belonging to the order of the charitable brethren, and Juan Dias, were dressed in their full canonicals, and read mass.

From The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Díaz del Castillo, Bernal