chasuble

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word chasuble. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word chasuble, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say chasuble in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word chasuble you have here. The definition of the word chasuble will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofchasuble, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Eighteenth-century chasuble from Mexico

Etymology

From Middle English chesible, from Old French chesible, from Late Latin casubla, an alteration of Latin casula (little cottage, hooded cloak), a diminutive of casa (house).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃæzjʊbəl/, /ˈt͡ʃæzəbəl/, /ˈt͡ʃæsəbəl/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

chasuble (plural chasubles)

  1. (Christianity) The outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass.
    • 1898, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, from the 1856 French by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, part 3, chapter 10 (ebook):
      Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
    • 1936, Henry Miller, “Jabberwhorl Kronstadt”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press , →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, pages 133–134:
      He has magenta eyes, like old-fashioned vest buttons; he’s mowsy and glaubrous, brown like arnica and then green as the Nile; he’s quaky and qualmy and queasy and teasy; he chews chasubles and ripples rasubly.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Old French chesible, from Late Latin casubla, an alteration of Latin casula (little cottage, hooded cloak), a diminutive of casa (house).

Pronunciation

Noun

chasuble f (plural chasubles)

  1. chasuble

Derived terms

Further reading