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Between the pomp surrounding donning one’s holy livery, pointed glares and swishing red silks and velvets, these cassocked clergymen make bored teenagers seem kind.

From Salon Nov. 22, 2024

To enter through its frescoed gates is to immerse oneself in a world full of cassocked monks, hushed, genuflecting worshipers and more than 100 religious structures.

From Washington Post Oct. 10, 2018

After dinner, the cassocked monk circled the table with a plate of tiny fruit pies he had made himself.

From New York Times Sep. 7, 2016

One saw robed Buddhist monks; priests and friars, collared or cassocked; nuns, in habit or not; imams in kufis; the occasional yarmulked Jew.

From New York Times Nov. 23, 2012

A cassocked Jesuit appeared under the light, followed by a man wearing the ordinary dress of a French colonist.

From The Lady of Fort St. John by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell