bavaroy
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French bavarois (“Bavarian”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bavaroy (plural bavaroys)
- (obsolete) A kind of cloak or surtout.
- [1716], [John] Gay, “Book I. Of the Implements for Walking the Streets, and Signs of the Weather”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC, page 4:
- Let the loop'd Bavaroy the Fop embrace, / Or his deep Cloak be ſpatter'd with Lace.
References
[edit]- ^ “bavaroy, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
