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单词 frock
释义

frock

/frɒk /
noun chiefly British
1A woman’s or girl’s dress: her new party frock...
  • As for the little girls, they were allowed to wear different coloured frocks and dresses.
  • He had been there from the beginning, since the little girl in the pink frock had raised her scrubby fist and inquired fearfully about the ‘bad people.’
  • The girl in the blue frock led Lia along a corridor leading from the banquet hall, until she found a room near the end of the wing with double doors and gold door handles.

Synonyms

dress, gown, robe, shift;
garment, costume
2A loose outer garment, in particular:Tavisome wears only a loose white frock, is obviously quite short, and is completely unarmed....
  • Their frocks or jumpers had deep collars decorated with white tape by 1879.
  • The awful frocks were replaced by suits with shoulders.
2.1A long gown with flowing sleeves worn by monks, priests, or clergy: the chaplain tottered in stiff splendid frocks...
  • These two beat up Sancho when he tries to take some friars' frocks as battle spoils.
  • He wears a priest's collar and carries a machine gun under his frock.
  • A round, balding priest hurried down the center aisle, his black frock billowing behind him.
2.2 historical An agricultural worker’s smock; a smock-frock.
2.3 short for frock coat.
2.4 archaic A woollen jersey worn by sailors: his Cornish-knit frock
3 archaic The work and position of a priest: such words as these cost the preacher his frock

Derivatives

frocked

adjective
[in combination]: a black-frocked Englishman

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French froc, of Germanic origin. The sense 'priest's or monk's gown' is preserved in defrock.

  • This comes from Old French froc, of Germanic origin. The original sense ‘priest's or monk's gown’ is preserved in defrock (late 16th century).

Rhymes

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