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Alb vs Chasuble - What's the difference?

alb | chasuble |

As nouns the difference between alb and chasuble

is that alb is a long white robe worn by priests and other ministers at religious ceremonies, underneath most of the other vestments while chasuble is the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass.

alb

English

(wikipedia alb)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long white robe worn by priests and other ministers at religious ceremonies, underneath most of the other vestments.

    • Related terms

    * album * albumin * albus * Albion

    See also

    * epigonation * epimanikion * epitrachelion * maniple * omophorion * rhason * sakkos * sticharion * zone

    Anagrams

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    chasuble

    English

    (wikipedia chasuble)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass.
  • * 1898 , translated by (w), from the 1856 French by (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary) , part 3, chapter 10 ( ebook):
    • 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 , (Henry Miller), , chapter 6 “Jabberwhorl Kronstadt”:
    • He has magenta eyes, like old-fashioned vest buttons; he’s mowsy and glaubrous, brown like arnica and then green as the Nile; he’s quaky and qualmy and queasy and teasy; he chews chasubles and ripples rasubly.
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