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navigation, search Roman Catholic bishop in choir dress:
cassock, rochet, cappa magna with ermine hood, and pectoral
cross on cord, 18th century.  Choir dress is the traditional
vesture of the clerics, seminarians and religious of Christian
churches worn for public prayer and the administration of the
sacraments except when celebrating or co-celebrating the
Eucharist. It differs from the vestments worn by the celebrants
of the Eucharist, being normally made of fabrics such as wool,
cotton or silk, as opposed to the fine brocades used in
vestments. It may also be worn by lay assistants such as
acolytes and choirs. It was abandoned by most of the Churches
which originated in the sixteenth-century Reformation[1]  Like
eucharistic vestments it derived originally from the formal
secular dress of the Roman Empire in the first centuries of the
Christian era which survived in church usage after fashion had
changed.[1]  Choir dress also differs from "house dr