With this description, The Queen was surprised to see him in clerical dress!
The pellegrina is an item of clerical dress worn by some Catholic ecclesiastics.
Persons in Holy Orders may wear clerical dress instead of subfusc.
One outward symbol of this was the adoption of distinctive clerical dress.
By 1558, even the supporters of the prayer book had abandoned the Edwardian regulations on clerical dress.
Efforts to force clerks to wear clerical dress, or to forswear marriage and concubines, were unsuccessful.
Religious celebrations outside churches was forbidden, use of church bells restricted and clerical dress was prohibited in public.
There was quiet elegance in his clerical dress.
He will not wear clerical dress.
A faint vision of an elderly figure in clerical dress, passed across a mental screen.