semi-clerical

A man in semi-clerical dress was walking along the road which led from the railway-station into a provincial town.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

You perceive him, a lank, cadaverous, good-looking man with long black hair and a semi-clerical costume of quite painful rustiness.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

The man with the mane of yellow hair and the semi-clerical clothes was not only familiar as a preacher on the sands, but as a propagandist throughout the modern world.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

The man with the mane of yellow hair and the semi-clerical clothes was not only familiar as a preacher on the sands, but as a propagandist throughout the modern world.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

The prelate, with his semi-clerical, semi-courtly air, made me a low bow.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

He wore, as a farm-labourer of the older sort, a semi-clerical hat, which with his long white beard gave him down to the middle of his chest a resemblance to that type still haunting the chapels of marsh villages and known as

Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

Mr. Ross was a poet of business; a squat, nervous little man, whose hair was cut in a Dutch bang, straight across his forehead, and who always wore a black bow tie and semi-clerical black clothes.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

Though in former times there were several semi-clerical ranks of women in the Church

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

You perceive him, a lank, cadaverous, good-looking man with long black hair and a semi-clerical costume of quite painful rustiness.

Love and Mr. Lewisham 1906

He was dressed in a semi-clerical garb, and he tapped Brooks on the shoulder.

A Prince of Sinners 1906