Chasuble vs Chasable - What's the difference?
chasuble | chasable |
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 (
* 1936 , (Henry Miller), , chapter 6 “Jabberwhorl Kronstadt”:
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As a noun chasuble
is the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating eucharist or mass.As an adjective chasable is
capable of being chased; fit for hunting.chasuble
English
(wikipedia chasuble)Noun
(en noun)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.
- 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.