soutane
See also: Soutane
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French soutane, from Italian sottana, from Latin subtana, from subtus (“below, beneath”), from sub (“under”).
Noun
soutane (plural soutanes)
- A long gown with sleeves and buttons at the front.
- Synonym: cassock
- 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, OCLC 1881984:
- Then at the door of the castle the rector had shaken hands with his father and mother, his soutane fluttering in the breeze, and the car had driven off with his father and mother on it.
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su.tan/
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Further reading
- “soutane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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