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SURPLICED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surpliced mean? 

SURPLICED (adjective)
  The adjective SURPLICED has 1 sense:

1. wearing a surpliceplay

  Familiarity information: SURPLICED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SURPLICED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Wearing a surplice

Similar:

clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)


 Context examples 


There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who seemed to be expostulating with them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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