chasuble
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French chesible, from late Latin casubla, an alteration of Latin casula (“little cottage, hooded cloak”), a diminutive of casa (“house”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæzjʊbəl/
Noun [edit]
chasuble (plural chasubles)
- The outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
- 1936: he’s quaky and qualmy and queasy and teasy; he chews chasubles and ripples rasubly. — Henry Miller, Black Spring
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.
Translations [edit]
liturgical vestment
