surplice

Word family nounsurpliceadjectivesurpliced

Related topics: Christianity, Clothes

sur·plice /ˈsɜːplɪs $ ˈsɜːr-/ noun [countableC]

RRCDCCa piece of clothing made of white material, worn over other clothes by priests or singers in church 〔教士或唱诗班成员穿的〕白色罩袍，白色法衣

Examples from the Corpus

surplice• Mr Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice, was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence.• Our table is graced by a single chorister - salt in a fluted surplice.• The elderly cleric was standing in the doorway in his surplice to welcome them.• Chapter Three Miss Dunstable decided to say nothing about the Rector's imperfectly ironed surplice.• The vicar insisted that it would mean wearing the uniform his people would recognise, and that included the surplice.• In his billowing white surplice he looked like a dishevelled old bird struggling to take off in a high wind.• Even more successful in this purpose is the white surplice which happily hangs from Anglican shoulders.

Origin surplice

(1200-1300) Old French surpliz, from Medieval Latin superpellicium, from pellicium “coat of animal skins”, from Latin pellis “skin”; because it was worn over fur clothing

单词	surplice
释义	surplice Word family nounsurpliceadjectivesurpliced Related topics: Christianity, Clothes sur·plice /ˈsɜːplɪs $ ˈsɜːr-/ noun [countableC] RRCDCCa piece of clothing made of white material, worn over other clothes by priests or singers in church 〔教士或唱诗班成员穿的〕白色罩袍，白色法衣 Examples from the Corpus surplice• Mr Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice, was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence.• Our table is graced by a single chorister - salt in a fluted surplice.• The elderly cleric was standing in the doorway in his surplice to welcome them.• Chapter Three Miss Dunstable decided to say nothing about the Rector's imperfectly ironed surplice.• The vicar insisted that it would mean wearing the uniform his people would recognise, and that included the surplice.• In his billowing white surplice he looked like a dishevelled old bird struggling to take off in a high wind.• Even more successful in this purpose is the white surplice which happily hangs from Anglican shoulders. Origin surplice (1200-1300) Old French surpliz, from Medieval Latin superpellicium, from pellicium “coat of animal skins”, from Latin pellis “skin”; because it was worn over fur clothing
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