Surplice

//ˈsɝplɪs//

Synonyms for "surplice" (2 found)

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Related words (1)

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Translations

48 translations across 35 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • مدرعة noun (liturgical vestment)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • ко́мжа noun (liturgical vestment)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • стиха́р noun (liturgical vestment)

Catalan

1 entries
  • sobrepellís noun (liturgical vestment)

Czech

1 entries
  • rocheta noun (liturgical vestment)

Dutch

3 entries
  • koorhemd noun (liturgical vestment)
  • superpellicum noun (liturgical vestment)
  • superplie noun (liturgical vestment)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • surpliso noun (liturgical vestment)

Finnish

2 entries
  • kuoripaita noun (liturgical vestment)
  • rökliini noun (liturgical vestment)

French

1 entries
  • surplis noun (liturgical vestment)

German

3 entries
  • Chorhemd noun (liturgical vestment)
  • Chorrock noun (liturgical vestment)
  • Superpelliceum noun (liturgical vestment)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • karing noun (liturgical vestment)

Ido

1 entries
  • surpliso noun (liturgical vestment)

Indonesian

2 entries
  • superpli noun (liturgical vestment)
  • surplis noun (liturgical vestment)

Irish

1 entries
  • suirplís noun (liturgical vestment)

Italian

2 entries
  • cotta noun (liturgical vestment)
  • surplice noun (liturgical vestment)

Korean

1 entries
  • 중백의 noun (liturgical vestment)

Latin

1 entries
  • superpellīcium noun (liturgical vestment)

Latvian

1 entries
  • komža noun (liturgical vestment)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • kamža noun (liturgical vestment)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • сти́хар noun (liturgical vestment)

Middle English

1 entries
  • surplys noun (liturgical vestment)

Norman

1 entries
  • p'lisse noun (liturgical vestment)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • cotta noun (liturgical vestment)
  • rochette noun (liturgical vestment)

Old Czech

1 entries
  • komžě noun (liturgical vestment)

Polish

2 entries
  • komeżka noun (liturgical vestment)
  • komża noun (liturgical vestment)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • sobrepeliz noun (liturgical vestment)

Russian

2 entries
  • ко́мжа noun (liturgical vestment)
  • суперпелли́цеум noun (liturgical vestment)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • alba noun (liturgical vestment)

Slovak

2 entries
  • kamža noun (liturgical vestment)
  • superpelícia noun (liturgical vestment)

Spanish

1 entries
  • sobrepelliz noun (liturgical vestment)

Swahili

1 entries
  • saplisi noun (liturgical vestment)

Swedish

3 entries
  • mässkjorta noun (liturgical vestment)
  • röcklin noun (liturgical vestment)
  • röklin noun (liturgical vestment)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • rokete noun (liturgical vestment)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • ко́мжа noun (liturgical vestment)

Welsh

1 entries
  • gwenwisg noun (liturgical vestment)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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On the previous night he had taken the manuscript out of a long neglected chest, containing old shooting jackets, old Oxbridge scribbling books, his old surplice, and battered cap and gown, and other memorials of youth, school, and home.

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Beneath an old ebony table were two long carved oak chests. I lifted the lid of one, and at the top was a once-white surplice covered with dust, and beneath was a mass of tracts — Commonwealth Quartos, unbound — a prey to worms and decay.

Source: wiktionary

He was a wide man and looked wider in his surplice, especially from our pew, which was close up under the pulpit.

Source: wiktionary

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