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Soutane

//suːˈtɑːn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A long gown with sleeves and buttons at the front, particularly when worn by Roman Catholic clerics.

    "The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; […] and the straight, black bar of his joined eyebrows[…] suggested something unlawful behind his priesthood, the idea of a chaplain of bandits."

  2. 2
    a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French soutane, from Italian sottana, from Latin subtana, from subtus (“below, beneath”), from sub (“under”).

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