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flobbo | 16:05 Sun 01st Dec 2019 | Crosswords
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Finding it hard to parse 18a: "short cassock could make gear for bishops". Have all letters but the last but still puzzled.
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What letters do you have?
16:07 Sun 01st Dec 2019
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If you would be so kind as to tell us what you've got, we should be ever so grateful, if it's not too much trouble.
16:10 Sun 01st Dec 2019
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It's an anagram of CASSOC(k) - 'Short cassock' and is an alt. sp. of the word with two Ks.
16:44 Sun 01st Dec 2019
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Well, I had SACCO? but still can't parse it or maybe I have an inadequate dictionary.
16:50 Sun 01st Dec 2019
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https://orthodoxwiki.org/Sakkos
16:54 Sun 01st Dec 2019
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You're just about there - SACCOS alt sp 'sakkos' - in Chambers (under the kk spelling it gives - ''n. in the Easter Church, a bishop's vestment like an alb.... Gr sakkos 'a bag'').
Chambers Dictionary is very useful.
16:58 Sun 01st Dec 2019
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Chambers definition is sakkos- in the Eastern church,a bishop's vestment like an alb or a dalmatic ( also saccos)
16:58 Sun 01st Dec 2019

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