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SOUTANE

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 463 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOUTANE  , the

French
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term adopted into
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English for a cassock especially used for the general daily dress worn by the secular
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Roman clergy in France, Italy, Spain and
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Portugal . The Med .
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Lat. subtaneus, adapted in O . Fr. as sotane, in Span. and Ital. as sotana, and
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Port. as sotaina, meant an under-skirt, and is formed from subtus, beneath, sub, under .

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