Usually means: Loose, flowing garment worn clerically.
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  1. surplice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. surplice: Merriam-Webster
  3. surplice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. surplice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. surplice: Collins English Dictionary
  6. surplice: Vocabulary.com
  7. Surplice, surplice: Wordnik
  8. surplice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. surplice: Wiktionary
  10. surplice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. surplice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. surplice: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. surplice: Dictionary.com
  14. surplice: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Surplice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Surplice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. surplice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. surplice: Rhymezone
  19. Surplice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. surplice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. surplice: FreeDictionary.org
  22. surplice: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. surplice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. surplice: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Surplice: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Surplice: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (surplice)

▸ noun:  A liturgical vestment of the Christian Church in the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or moderately wide sleeves, reaching to the hips or knees, usually featuring lace decoration and embroidered bordures.

Similar:
cotta, rochet, stola, supertunic, scapular, chasuble, pallium, soutane, simar, surcoat, more...

Opposite:
cassock, alb, stole, chasuble

Phrases:
surplice fees, jewish surplice, more...

Adjectives:
white, short, long, black, clean, decent, fine, plain, dirty, comely, simple
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Similar:
cotta, rochet, stola, supertunic, scapular, chasuble, pallium, soutane, simar, surcoat, more...

Opposite:
cassock, alb, stole, chasuble

Phrases:
surplice fees, jewish surplice, more...

Adjectives:
white, short, long, black, clean, decent, fine, plain, dirty, comely, simple



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