Examples from literature

• Francis was dressed in a mantle of cloth of gold, which fell over a jewelled cassock of gold frieze. 
• He hitched up his cassock to lift his foot, just as the women hold up their skirts, and climbed into the coach. 
• Then he began to feel his pockets, passing his hands down his worn cassock. 
• Two of them have a scarf over a surplice or, as is more likely, a loose-sleeved cassock. 
• Village cures in their black cassocks and shovel hats, and monks in sandals and brown woollen robes, were everywhere.