Frock

Word FROCK
Character 5
Hyphenation frock
Pronunciations /fɹɒk/

Definitions and meanings of "Frock"

What do we mean by frock?

A woman's dress. noun

A long loose outer garment, as that worn by artists and craftspeople; a smock. noun

A woolen garment formerly worn by sailors; a jersey. noun

A robe worn by monks, friars, and other clerics; a habit. noun

To clothe in a frock. transitive verb

To invest with clerical office. transitive verb

A frog. noun

A garment with large sleeves worn by monks. noun

A garment covering the body and worn by either sex. noun

The principal outer garment of women: a term partly abandoned in recent times for the indistinctive word dress and the word gown, but still retained, particularly in the British islands, for the outer garment, consisting of a bodice or waist and a skirt, worn by children. noun

Same as frock-coat. noun

In the British service, the undress regimental coat of the guards, artillery, and royal marines. noun

A sort of worsted netting worn by sailors, often in lieu of a shirt. Also called a Guernsey frock. Jamieson. noun

To supply or cover with a frock; hence, to invest with the privileges of those whose distinctive dress is a frock, as of a monk. See frock, n., 1.

To clothe in a frock. transitive verb

To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock. transitive verb

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. noun

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. noun

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. noun

See in the Vocabulary. noun

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

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

A sailor's jersey.

An undress regimental coat.

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The word "frock" in example sentences

What the frock is your frocking problem with the word frock, motherfrocker? ❋ Unknown (2008)

A couple of business men, dressed in frock coats and striped trousers, each carrying gloves and swinging a cane, came by on their way to the Ferry Building and stopped to talk with Daddy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She really went out on a limb -- her right arm, specifically -- choosing an asymmetrical Lanvin frock that looks like two dresses rolled into one. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2010)

I would be happy only ever dressing in frock coats. ❋ Stephen Tall (2009)

Her blouse was a revealing off white satin frock -- that had little bows down the front. ❋ Linda Grasso (2010)

Hair as long as arms, utterly straight and the best way to describe the clothes is imagine a Jane Austen muslin frock cut off short, but with the little puff sleeves and tight, low bodice, and collar bones and shoulders with those tiny bones; the body and its lightest drapes worn with flat, soft, pale boots. ❋ Newmania (2007)

No one dreamed what was going an under the muslin frock, till grandma's wise old eyes spied out the little shadow on ❋ Unknown (1950)

If this predominance of English fashions had been confined to filling our drawing-rooms with young men in English frock-coats, instead of the French dress, good taste and commerce might alone have suffered; but the principles of English government had taken possession of these young heads. ❋ Various (N/A)

This vulgar society, these simple, plain, sentiments, the sweetheart in a calico gown, the respectable old man in short frock and overalls, the sharp lines where here and there boldly rang out a slang word of the faubourg; above all, the scene representing ❋ Various (N/A)

Suddenly a young man started up, in dress and appearance the very model of a German student -- in short frock coat and loose sacklike trousers, long curling hair hanging over his shoulders, pointed beard and mustache, and the scars of one or two sabre cuts on his handsome animated countenance. ❋ Various (N/A)

I think that it was Carlyle who denounced all politicians as "Fools in frock coats" and some of you may be familiar with a very famous definition given by Mr. Labouchere, a famous English wit. ❋ Unknown (1933)

She was extravagantly slender – the merest thread of a girl, though not without little curves beneath her thin frock where little curves should be. ❋ Unknown (1922)

After dinner, of which Mrs. Fleming complained that I ate hardly a mouthful, I slipped into my own room and donned the white silk stockings and my white kid pumps, and lastly the delicate rose muslin frock which set off my dark hair and complexion to the best possible advantage. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Harriet jumped aside to avoid being bumped, while Patty snatched her pink frock from the path of the runaway, They were shrieking with laughter, even Harriet, the tearful. ❋ Unknown (1911)

He was the most modest, the least among them, but there were his comrades -- they were there, in truth, solemn gentlemen in English frock-coats, with their hair parted in the middle, from their foreheads to the napes of their necks -- studious young men -- who had flattered him with the honor of speaking for them -- and if they had not been more economical, it was because greater economy had been impossible. ❋ Vicente Blasco Ib����ez (1897)

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