rochet
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈɹɒtʃɪt/
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. [from 12th c.]
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Torquato 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.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:
- 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.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Torquato Tasso, XI, iv:
- (now, rare, historical) A frock or outer garment worn in the 13th and 14th centuries. [from 14th c.]
rochet (plural rochets)
- (obsolete) The red gurnard. [14th–19th c.]
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