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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In the church door, a red biretta on his close-cropped head, an old black overcoat covering his scarlet-piped soutane, appeared hollow-eyed Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every stitch of their elaborate garments, from scarlet silk stockings to matching skullcap, came from Bonaventura Gammarelli, 61, the most prestigious name in the Roman Catholic cloak and soutane trade.
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
He bounded up the few stairs to the verandah, holding his soutane up like a bride holding a wedding dress.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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