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Chasuble
Chas′u-ble
,Noun.
[F.
chasuble
, LL. casubula
, cassibula
, casula
, a hooded garment, covering the person like a little house; cf. It. casupola
, casipola
, cottage, dim of L. casa
cottage.] (Eccl.)
The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ’s sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.
[Written also
chasible
, and chesible
.] Definition 2024
chasuble
chasuble
English
Noun
chasuble (plural chasubles)
- The outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass.
- 1898, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, from the 1856 French by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, part 3, chapter 10 (ebook):
- Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
- 1936, Henry Miller, Black Spring, chapter 6 “Jabberwhorl Kronstadt”:
- He has magenta eyes, like old-fashioned vest buttons; he’s mowsy and glaubrous, brown like arnica and then green as the Nile; he’s quaky and qualmy and queasy and teasy; he chews chasubles and ripples rasubly.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:chasuble.
- 1898, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, from the 1856 French by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, part 3, chapter 10 (ebook):
Translations
liturgical vestment