Obs. exc. Hist. Also in 6 casle. [OE. casul, also OF. casule, ad. L. casula (dim. of casa cottage), used in late L. for ‘a vestment covering the whole person’ (‘casula est vestis cucullata, dicta per diminutionem a casa, quod totum hominem tegat, quasi minor casa,’ Isidore XIX. xxiv. 17).] = CHASUBLE.

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a. 1000.  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 196. Byrrum, casul.

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1557.  Wills & Inv. N. C. (1835), 159. Item more a casle of geld price viij l.

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1563–87.  Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 207/1. His [the archbishop of York’s] casule, chimer, and rochet.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Casule, or Planet, one of those attires wherewith the Priest is vested, when he says Mass.

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1824.  Southey, Bk. of Ch. (1841), 211. Plucked the priestly casule from his back.

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