monastic garb

Her almost monastic garb expresses the rejection of the temptations of the flesh that lead to excess.

She told the court how at one such party she watched two women wearing black monastic garb perform for the former prime minister, then strip to their underwear.

He nonetheless classified them and other orders as monastic insofar as they retained choir and monastic garb.

After the last repetition, the priest bowed in turn to Zigabenos, handed his book to Lavros, and invested the new monk with his monastic garb.

When Harold marched to meet the Normans, Ælfwig joined him with twelve of his monks, wearing coats of mail over their monastic garb, and with twenty armed men.

The Nyingma school includes a mixture of bhikṣus and non-celibate ngakpas, and it is not unusual for lamas to wear robes closely resembling monastic garb despite them not being bhikṣus.

The youth was not clad in monastic garb, but in lay attire, though his jerkin, cloak and hose were all of a sombre hue, as befitted one who dwelt in sacred precincts.

North of the real Canaries, the Pizzigani brothers also depicted a fictional cluster of Fortunate Islands, intended to capture Saint Brendan's Island, graced by an image of Brendan himself in monastic garb.

Its monastic practices included adult baptism by treble immersion, the wearing of Catholic-style monastic garb, Sabbatarianism, long days of work and prayer, a Spartan diet of one vegetarian meal a day and accommodation in tiny, sparsely furnished cells.

He handed the holy book to his colleague, then robed the new monk in his monastic garb, saying, "As the garment of Phos' blue covers your naked body, so may his righteousness enfold your heart and preserve it from all evil."