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noun

Frock n.

A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.

A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.

Frock coat, a body coat for men, usually double-breasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full.

Smock frock. See in the Vocabulary.

verb

Frock v. t.

To clothe in a frock.

To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.

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Etymology of 'Frock'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Frock" Quotes from Famous Books

... you still, my friend," she laughed. "You have won my fond regard—and, incidentally, the cost of a new frock." ...

— Madcap • George Gibbs

... Angus, boldly, "even as a cowherd! Your arguments won't hold with me, David! A gentleman is not made by a frock coat and top hat. And a lady is not a lady because she wears fine clothes and speaks one or two foreign languages very badly. For that's about all a 'lady's' education amounts to nowadays. According to Victorian annals, 'ladies' used to be fairly accomplished—they played and sang music well, ...

— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli

... dress consists of a double-breasted frock coat of dark material, and waistcoat, either single or double- breasted, of same, or of some fancy material of late design. The trousers should be of light color, avoiding of ...

— The Book of Good Manners • W. C. Green

... seemed to be continually saying: 'Touch me—and I shall scream for help!' In costume, any elegance, any elaboration, any coquetry, was eschewed by them as akin to wantonness. Now Geraldine reversed all that. Her frock was candidly ornate. She told him she had made it herself, but it appeared to him that there were more stitches in it than ten women could have accomplished in ten years. She openly revelled in her charms; she openly made the most of them. She did not attempt to disguise her wish to please, ...

— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett

... nearly forgotten to point out a very genteel-looking young man in black, who wears a distressingly long frock coat and a white neckcloth, who escorts Mrs. Meeker to her carriage, and enters ...

— The Continental Monthly, Volume V. Issue I • Various

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