habit
religious dress
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Roman Catholicism
- In Roman Catholicism: The priesthood and the diaconate
…clerical identity, symbolized by clerical garb, which sets priests as a class apart from lay Catholics. The most identifiable piece of garb worn by priests is a white collar, sometimes called a Roman collar.
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symbolic identification
- In religious dress
In many traditions, habits serve to identify monastic groups. Indeed, in the latter case, the function of religious dress is more akin to heraldry as a form of symbolic identification than to liturgy with its ritualistic symbolic motifs.
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