surplice
noun
a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
surpliced
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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
And now the congregation rises in a body as a long double file of surpliced choristers emerges from a side chapel.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
He hung on to the rail, his surpliced figure trembling as with palsy.
From Amusement Only by Richard Marsh
It has stained-glass windows, a baptistry, and maintains a surpliced choir.
From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts
It was as if a building with a spire and chimes, altar and surpliced clergyman, white-robed choristers and bowed suppliants, would help her make the decision that a long, sleepless night had withheld.
From The Hills of Refuge A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
