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Definition of 'rochet'English
Etymology 1
Noun
( en-noun)
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 (w), 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.
*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
*:They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet .
A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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Etymology 2
Probably corrupted from (etyl) rouget.
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