Chasuble vs Dalmatic - What's the difference?
chasuble | dalmatic |
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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A long wide-sleeved tunic, which serves as a liturgical vestment in the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches and is worn by a deacon at the Eucharist or Mass and, although infrequently, by bishops as an undergarment above the alb.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XI:
*:He had [...] dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis [...].
As nouns the difference between chasuble and dalmatic
is that chasuble is the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass while dalmatic is a long wide-sleeved tunic, which serves as a liturgical vestment in the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches and is worn by a deacon at the Eucharist or Mass and, although infrequently, by bishops as an undergarment above the alb.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.