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Mandarin vs Surplice - What's the difference?

mandarin | surplice |

As nouns the difference between mandarin and surplice

is that mandarin is mandarin (person) while 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.

mandarin

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mandarim, mandarij, from (etyl) menteri, manteri, and its source, (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
  • A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
  • (often, pejorative) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
  • A mandarin duck.
  • (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
    • Derived terms
    * mandarinate * mandarinism * mandarinship

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
  • *1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 58:
  • *:A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.
  • * 2007 , Marina Warner, ‘Doubly Damned’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 26:
  • *:Though alert to riddles' strong roots in vernacular narrative, Cook's tastes are mandarin , and she gives a loving account of Wallace Stevens's meditations on the life of poetic images and simile […].

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mandarine, feminine of mandarin, probably formed as Etymology 1, above, from the yellow colour of the mandarins' costume.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mandarin orange; a small, sweet citrus fruit.
  • A mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata .
  • An orange colour.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "mandarin")

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    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)