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frock /frɒk /noun chiefly British1A 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 Derivativesfrocked adjective [in combination]: a black-frocked Englishman OriginLate Middle English: from Old French froc, of Germanic origin. The sense 'priest's or monk's gown' is preserved in defrock. Rhymesad hoc, amok, Bangkok, baroque, belle époque, bloc, block, bock, brock, chock, chock-a-block, clock, doc, dock, floc, flock, hock, hough, interlock, jock, knock, langue d'oc, lock, Locke, Médoc, mock, nock, o'clock, pock, post hoc, roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, Spock, stock, wok, yapok |