Canonicals

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Canonicals \Ca*non"ic*als\, n. pl.
     The dress prescribed by canon[2] to be worn by a clergyman
     when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional
     dress.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Full canonicals}, the complete costume of an officiating
        clergyman or ecclesiastic.

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  CANONICALS, n.  The motley worm by Jesters of the Court of Heaven.