frock
frock is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 37 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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 doublebreasted, 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.
- 2.To clothe in a frock.
- 3.To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alb
- amice
- apron
- biretta
- calotte
- canonicals
- capouch
- cassock
- chasuble
- cope
- costume
- cowl
- crosier
- crown
- dalmatic
- fannel
- fanon
- gown
- hat
- hood
- lawn
- miter
- mozetta
- pall
- pallium
- pastoral
- robe
- scapulary
- scarf
- shovel
- staff
- stole
- surplice
- tiara
- tonsure
- triple
- tunicle
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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