Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cassock, especially one that buttons up and down the front.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cassock .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl. Costume) A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a long
gown withsleeves andbuttons at the front
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Watts can provide you with a classical soutane - piped fuchsia edges an optional extra - but it's the glorious copes and chasubles that catch the eye.
Update on Some Liturgical Details for the Installation of Archbishop Vincent Nichols 2009
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The priest hurries past on his way to say mass, the soutane flying superhero-style.
schoolyard soccer James Claffey 2011
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Navin Patel can go one better, having donned his surplus and soutane to line up for one such team.
The Knowledge | Football teams for religion | Barry Glendenning 2011
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"If you'll come to the surgery with me, Father, I'll cleanse those cuts for you," I offered, suppressing a smile at the spectacle the fat little priest presented, soutane flapping and argyle socks revealed.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Father Bain's soutane was ripped down one side, showing an expanse of hairless white thigh with an ugly gash and several puncture marks beginning to ooze blood.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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When he got within forty yards of the church, he realized that the figure was not dressed in a long coat, but rather the vestments, or soutane, of a Catholic priest.
Foreign Influence Brad Thor 2010
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She rang the bell and when the door opened, Father Morrison, in a soutane large enough to double as a tent, loomed over her.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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Hampered by his voluminous soutane, the priest tripped and fell, water and mud flying in spatters all around him.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Close up, the priest too had an institutional tinge; boiled-tattie complexion, musty soutane and a home haircut.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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Jaw clenched in triumph, the priest whipped aside the skirts of his soutane.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
chained_bear commented on the word soutane
"'We see women flogging saints' statues,' Ozouf reports. 'Priests' soutanes drop to reveal the dress of the sans-culottes; nuns dance the carmagnole. A cardinal and a whore walk on either side of the coffin of Despotism.' News of revolutionary victories was often greeted with firecrackers, drums, singing, and dancing in the streets. 'They are like madmen who ought to be tied up, or rather like bacchantes,' the mayor of Leguillac remarked of the local revolutionaries, while the siegneur de Montbrun observed with distaste that 'they danced around like Hurons and Iroquois.'"
—Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006), 110
March 14, 2009
reesetee commented on the word soutane
Sounds like a good time. ;-)
March 14, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word soutane
"He saw the orthodox priest arriving from the neighboring village after a long hike over hills and through rocky gullies. His floor-length black soutane was spattered up to the knee with yellow clay and pollen from the broom blossoms."
Don Juan: His Own Version by Peter Handke, translated by Krishna Winston, p 43
April 14, 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word soutane
"The youthful populace of Dublin are being sucked out of the churches by the ideological vacuum; on to the streets, then into the bars and restaurants which have colonised the city centre. Where once burly men in soutanes enforced the creed, now burly men in black overcoats enforce the guest list."
Psychogeograpy by Will Self, 102
October 16, 2010