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Surplice vs Chasuble - What's the difference?

surplice | chasuble |

As nouns the difference between surplice and chasuble

is that surplice is a liturgical vestment of the christian church it has the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or moderately wide sleeves, reaching to the hips or knees it usually features lace decoration and may have embroidered bordures while chasuble is the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating eucharist or mass.

surplice

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A liturgical vestment of the Christian Church. It has the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or moderately wide sleeves, reaching to the hips or knees. It usually features lace decoration and may have embroidered bordures.
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surplice d group stopped to say the last prayer.}}

    External links

    * ("surplice" on Wikipedia)

    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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