How To Use surplice In A Sentence
- Mr Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice, was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence.
- ‘He was very serious in his white surplice and black soutane,’ recalled one former friend.
- She threw in the Dacron cassock and surplice, too, the scent lingering. TOUCH
- However, it doesn't match any of the new surplices that have been bought, which go down to about knee level, so I'll not be allowed to wear it in future - at least, not when I'm singing with the rest of my choir.
- But in Victorian times it suffered a slow demise, as barrel organs and harmoniums replaced the bands, and a surpliced choir in the chancel tended to supersede the old gallery singers, bringing a return to conventional art music.
- In assisting the bishop they dispense with the cuculla, and wear the almuce over the surplice. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
- The cape of fur, which hung down to the knees and was set over a kind of surplice of yellow silk, was open in front, revealing its wearer's naked bosom that was clothed only with row upon row of round gems of the size of a hazel nut. Red Eve
- Powerful lights made their white surplices glow like neon, and the pulpitted priest seemed to be borne aloft on a cloud of pure radiance.
- This was about the clerk of that parish, whose wife used to wash the parson's surplices.
- In terms of the ornaments of the liturgy, sometimes the altar is set up in a way that is untidy, such as crooked candles that could easily be straightened or unevenly spaced candlesticks that a few more minutes of preparation could rectify; unkempt vestments, altar linens, cassocks and surplices for servers are sometimes also in evidence, as are servers visibly wearing informal clothing beneath their cassock. Ars Celebrandi as it relates to the Usus Antiquior
