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Soutane
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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the French term adopted into English for a cassock especially used for the general daily dress worn by the secular Roman clergy in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. The Med. Lat. subtaneus, adapted in O. Fr. as sotane, in Span. and Ital. as sotana, and Port. as sotaina, meant an under-skirt, and is formed from subtus, beneath, sub, under. (See CASSOCK.)
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Soutane'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/soutane.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Soutane'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/soutane.html. 1910.