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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 Greek church, a Russian school with a cassocked priest presiding, and, about a hundred houses, beside the cannery buildings, make up the village.

From The Silver Horde by Beach, Rex Ellingwood