clericals
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Out of jails all over Spain and across frontiers they poured last week. 9,000 monarchists, clericals, politicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
And with an urbane, engaging smile, out of his long black clericals he pops it: natural law.
From Time Magazine Archive
His own Christian Democrats include monarchists and republicans, rebels and traditionalists, free enterprisers and welfare staters, clericals and anticlericals.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a rare domestic interlude, for the figure in black clericals with the silver pectoral cross* is more familiar these days in Washington or London or Africa than in New Rochelle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Cooper had to cough so he could pretend not to be laughing, and he winked at Johnny in spite of the dignity of his black clericals, white bands, and great woolly wig.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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