rochet
See also: röchet
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English roket, rochet.
Noun
rochet (plural rochets)
- 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.
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Edmund Burke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv:
- (historical) A frock or outer garment worn in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Etymology 2
From Middle English roget, from Middle French rouget.
Noun
rochet (plural rochets)
- A fish, the red gurnard.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rochet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Czech
Noun
rochet
French
Noun
rochet m (plural rochets)
Further reading
- “rochet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
rochet
- Alternative form of roget
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