soutane
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of soutane
1830–40; < French < Italian sottana, feminine of sottano placed below, equivalent to sott ( o ) below (< Latin subtus ) + -ano -an; form of the French word influenced by sous under
Example Sentences
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Instead of his clerical soutane, he wore a beret and turtleneck sweater.
From Time Magazine Archive
At lunch, an excited waiter spilled gravy all over Bishop Le Huu Tu's white fleece cape and cream-colored soutane.
From Time Magazine Archive
Large though his sober soutane was, the young priest had to secrete a quantity of papers so great as to have given a man of faint heart pause.
From Time Magazine Archive
Garbed by the Penitentiaries in white soutane, red cape and hood, the body of Pius XI was raised upon a velvet and gold catafalque, carried in a slow cortege to the Sistine Chapel.
From Time Magazine Archive
A young lean priest in a discolored soutane came up to the car.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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