soutane
- n a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests
- I don't care about his Jesuit politics, nor even about his soutane cassock.
- In the church door, a red biretta on his close-cropped head, an old black overcoat covering his scarlet-piped soutane, appeared hollow-eyed Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of .
- Large though his sober soutane was, the young priest had to secrete a quantity of papers so great as to have given a man of faint heart pause.