ecclesiastical dress

Should the score be treated like a grand opera in ecclesiastical dress, as it was considered when new?

At first, in order to plead the benefit of clergy, one had to appear before the court tonsured and otherwise wearing ecclesiastical dress.

They are addressed as Monsignor and have certain privileges as regards ecclesiastical dress.

Galloon is used in the trim of military and police uniforms, ecclesiastical dress, and as trim on textiles, drapery, and upholstery.

In 1564 he also subscribed the bishops' propositions concerning ecclesiastical dress, and wrote Tractatus de vestium usu in sacris.

In 1570, when Pope Pius V listed the colours that could be used for ecclesiastical dress and for altar decoration, he excluded blue, because he considered it too common.

I am deeply envious of what others might see as obsession but I see as organization of a high order; this envy accompanies my desire for the contemplative life, for convents and the hush of long corridors, for vespers and ecclesiastical dress.