Meanings
- not comparableWearing a surplice.
Surpliced Sirs farewell, / I can tell, my name full well.
c. 1589, anonymous author, O read me for I am of great antiquitie3 more examples
At Westminster the surplic’d dean / The sad but honourable scene / Prepares.
1757, Richard Owen, “To Mr. Whitehead, On his being made Poet Laureat”, in Robert Dodsley, editor, A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, volume 6, London: J. Dodsley, page 338Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLCAfter Mass one sunrise the canoes entered the troughs / of the surpliced shallows,
1990, Derek Walcott, chapter 1, in Omeros, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 8
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