canonicals

British  

/ kəˈnɒnɪkəlz /

plural noun

1. the vestments worn by clergy when officiating

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Example Sentences

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

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

Nearly 4,000 of the Englishmen were destroyed, including 300 priests, attired in full canonicals, from which tragic circumstance the rude Scots jestingly referred to the battle as the “Chapter of Mitton.”

From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by Andrews, William

He took pains to return our visit the next day, but came to our bohio in full canonicals.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward

A portrait, painted in middle age, now in the church of Melhus, near Trondhjem, represents him in canonicals, with deep red beard and hair, the latter waved and silky, and a head of massive proportions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various