new words – prelate

Still not even halfway through The Orchard Keeper, here is another word I’ve never seen.

Prelate – an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank

And here is the start of a long sentence:

“John Shell, looking like nothing so much as an ill-assembled manikin of bones on which clothes were hung in sagging dusty folds, his wrists protruding like weathered sticks from his flapping prelate sleeves…”