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What is a surplice?

What is a surplice? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A liturgical vestment of the Christian Church. It has the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or moderately wide sleeves, reaching to the hips or knees. It usually features lace decoration and may have embroidered bordures.
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Once I had stuffed myself behind the wheel with my surplice billowing around me like a collapsed parachute, I switched into passive mode.
So out went audible responses, the minister's surplice and the litany.
One day, a great eagle seized Emyo Zenji's surplice, flew with it to some mountains, and hung it on a large pine bough.
The surplice was also associated with the monastic orders, but vesture distinguished only the order and not the kind of order.
Does a priest's surplice differ from that worn by a lay vicar, or vicar choral?
He became a canon of Salisbury in 1563, but objected to the use of the surplice and to contributing to the repairs of the cathedral.

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