frock

CEFRC1

/fɹɒk/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A dress, especially a woman's or girl's dress.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A sailor's jersey.

Examples

  • Rima always wears a frock at parties.

  • Tom wears a frock, but he's not a priest.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals; a habit.

  2. A dress, a piece of clothing, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.

  3. An undress regimental coat.

More examples

In context

  • […] Mrs. Parmly-Coles, in thus frocking her daughter, was no jealous cat but a pearl among mothers.

  • MajGen Richard G. Schulze […] was selected for two-star rank by members of the January selection board. He was frocked on 27 Jan and assigned new duties as CG, MCRD, San Diego.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English frok, frokke, from Old French froc (“frock, a monk's gown or habit”), perhaps via Medieval Latin hrocus, roccus, rocus (“a coat”), from Frankish *hrokk (“skirt, dress, robe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz (“robe, jacket, skirt, tunic”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreḱ- (“to weave”). Cognate with Old High German hroch, roch (“skirt, dress, cowl”) – whence German Rock (“skirt, coat”) –, Saterland Frisian Rok (“skirt”), Dutch rok (“skirt, petticoat”), Old English rocc (“an overgarment, tunic, rochet”), Old Norse rokkr (“skirt, jacket”), whence Danish rok (“garment”).