soutane
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of soutane
1830–40; < French < Italian sottana, feminine of sottano placed below, equivalent to sott ( o ) below (< Latin subtus ) + -ano -an; form of the French word influenced by sous under
Example Sentences
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While the faithful prayed in the square last week, dour Cardinal Ascalesi, splendid in scarlet soutane and sash, held high the gold-encased skull, blessed 20,000 worshippers.
From Time Magazine Archive
At lunch, an excited waiter spilled gravy all over Bishop Le Huu Tu's white fleece cape and cream-colored soutane.
From Time Magazine Archive
His cause was well advanced by the time Pius XI donned the white soutane in 1922.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the church door, a red biretta on his close-cropped head, an old black overcoat covering his scarlet-piped soutane, appeared hollow-eyed Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna.
From Time Magazine Archive
He came in the morning, smelling of that masculine cologne I had come to smell even when he was not there, wearing the same boyish smile, wearing the same soutane.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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