surpliced
- a word derived from surplice.
Example Sentences
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White surpliced priests marched chanting part way up the volcano.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was carried on constantly, at the close of each day, in funerary cars covered with a pall and followed by surpliced priests, chanting the service for the dead.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William
First came a little group of surpliced priests and acolytes, preceded by a tall silver crucifix and two burning tapers; then the coffin, borne by four men.
From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram
After chanted vigils and a sufficiently long mass, white surpliced priests, preceded by a cross, appeared at the church doorway.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
All were smiling, and I felt that a bishop and a brass band or surpliced choristers ought to have been present.
From The Call Of The South 1908 by Becke, Louis
