cassock

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1988
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; eskimo*; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/12705

cassock n [head note annotation] 'long loose coat or gown worn by rustics [and] sailors' obs (1590-16280 for sense l. The word--which we have been tryng to draw away from _DC's_ kossack, with its false Eskimo derivation, as well as the later ecclesiastical usage-- occurs in Alain-Rene Lesage, _The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillana_(first French Ed. 1715, 1724), in Tobias Smollett's translation, which I'm reading (for the first time since 1950) in the 1928 World's Classics Oxford ed; it may be worth a headnote ref since it shows Smollett using it easily in the 18th century [cp the 1792 PULLING cite for Nfld]. [1748] 1928 LESAGE, Gil Blas_ (tr. Smollet), Bk I, ch vii, p. 34 [The robbers] made me throw away my habit, that consisted of a sorry threadbare short cassock, and dressed me in the spoils of a gentleman whom they had lately robbed. DNE Sup G.M. Story JUN.21 1988 [check] WK Used I Used I Not used cossack, cossock, cozzock, kossack, kossak, kossok, ADIKEY, DICKY, NORTH-WESTER Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Mon 13 Apr 2015