| Village cures in their black cassocks and shovel hats, and monks in sandals and brown woollen robes, were everywhere. |
| Altar boys took the occasional hit from the altar wine and used their cassocks for Halloween costumes. |
| In the cobalt light, their cassocks slapped softly against their trouser legs. |
| From their immaculate haircuts and the swish of their exquisitely cut cassocks these were the lads from Rome. |
| Cassocks are similarly inadvisable in a force 10 gale, replaced by the standard hard hat, flameproof overalls, safety goggles, boots and gloves. |
| Round this his body-guard kept watch, composed of twenty-four men in long blue cassocks, turned up with yellow, and each armed with a musket. |
