habit, religious

habit, religious

The dress of a monk or a nun . Each order has a habit peculiar to it. The rule of several, e.g., Jesuits , is to use the habit worn by the priests in the country in which they reside, but long established custom has supplanted this rule in many places.

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New Catholic Dictionary

Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary