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Definition of Chasubles
1. chasuble [n] - See also: chasuble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chasubles
Literary usage of Chasubles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture by Edward Payson Evans (1896)
"... the fall of man—Julius Caesar's queer account of the elk—Elephants embroidered
on chasubles—Four characteristics of the serpent—Artistic and poetic uses ..."
2. Henry Viii and the English Monasteries: An Attempt to Illustrate the History by Francis Aidan Gasquet (1893)
"Ancient inventories show that there were in the monastic sacristies many copes,
chasubles, and much other altar furniture, of gold and silver cloth, ..."
3. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society, William Angus Knight, Wordsworth Society (1900)
"Du Molinet speaks in his preface of these surplices made like chasubles. He says
that you may still see in some places a sort of surplice without sleeves, ..."
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