cassock
noun/ˈkæsək/
/ˈkæsək/
- a long piece of clothing, usually black or red, worn by some Christian priests and other people with special duties in a churchTopics Religion and festivalsc2Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French casaque ‘long coat’, from Italian casacca ‘riding coat’, probably from Turkic (a large group of Western and Central Asian languages) kazak ‘vagabond’.
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