pontificals
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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"Bon dou donc, you're in your pontificals, mon gars!"
From Carette of Sark by John Oxenham
By coming to the court in his pontifical dress Thomas had raised a claim that a bishop could only be tried dressed in full pontificals by his fellow-bishops also in full dress.
From Henry the Second by Mrs. J. R. Green
On the left hand stands Aaron in full pontificals, as set forth in the Book of Leviticus or that of Numbers.
From As We Are and As We May Be by Sir Walter Besant
Accordingly, next morning he appeared with his clerk, and, in his pontificals, read several prayers in the established form, and then read the collect for the seventh day of September, which was the thirty-fifth psalm.
From The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 by Henry C. Watson
The British Museum possesses a number of pontificals and other illustrated manuscripts containing artistic representations of clerks.
From The Parish Clerk by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
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