canonicals

British  

/ kəˈnɒnɪkəlz /

plural noun

1. the vestments worn by clergy when officiating

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Example Sentences

Originator of the plan was Kent School's high-church headmaster, Father Frederick Herbert Sill, who coaches crew in his white cassock and sometimes, in black canonicals, substitutes as coxswain.

From Time Magazine Archive

They sat down in, armchairs facing the altar and their vice-chairman and secretary, the only ones present wearing canonicals, Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson of Chicago and the Rev. Charles Laban Pardee.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gesualdo kneeled by the dead man in his blood-stained, sand-stained canonicals; he was praying with all the soul there was in him, not for the dead man, but for the living woman.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida

"Is it then in full canonicals, and with the smoke of censers, we are to march against the Saxon?" said Mark, with a taunting sneer.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James

The abbot, in full canonicals, carried it to the cathedral, where the Archbishop of Reims received it from him, and set it on the high altar.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various