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rochet en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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• /ˈɹɒtʃɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

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.
   • Or elſe they vvould ſtraine us out a certaine figurative Prelat, by vvringing the collective allegory of thoſe ſeven Angels into ſeven ſingle Rochets. 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:
   • 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. 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv
   • 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. 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:
2. (archaic, historical) A frock or outer garment worn in the 13th and 14th centuries.

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Deriveds

rocheted

rochet en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English roget, from Middle French rouget.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) The red gurnard.

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