rochet

See also: röchet

English

Etymology 1

A group of canons wearing white rochets under black mozzettas.

Middle English roket, rochet, from Anglo-Norman rochet, Middle French rochet, from Frankish (cf. Old English rocc (“overgarment”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒtʃɪt/

Noun

rochet (plural rochets)

1. A white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church. [from 12th c.]
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv:

     Each priest adorn'd was in a surplice white, / The bishops don'd their albes and copes of state, // Above their rochets button'd fair before, / And mitres on their heads like crowns they wore.

   • 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “To the Argument of B[ishop] Andrews and the Primat”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 8:

     Or elſe they vvould ſtraine us out a certaine figurative Prelat, by vvringing the collective allegory of thoſe ſeven Angels into ſeven ſingle Rochets.

   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:

     They will tell you that they see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet.

2. (archaic, historical) A frock or outer garment worn in the 13th and 14th centuries. [from 14th c.]

Etymology 2

From Middle English roget, from Middle French rouget.

Noun

rochet (plural rochets)

1. (obsolete) The red gurnard. [14th–19th c.]

Anagrams

• Hector, Troche, hector, orchet, rotche, tocher, troche

Czech

Noun

rochet

1. genitive plural of rocheta

French

Etymology 1

From Old French rochet, ultimately from Frankish *hrokk.

Noun

rochet m (plural rochets)

1. rochet

Etymology 2

From Frankish *rokko, perhaps under influence of Etymology 1, above.

Noun

rochet m (plural rochets)

1. ratchet

Descendants

• → English: ratchet

Further reading

• “rochet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

rochet

1. Alternative form of roget