frock

[ frok ]

noun

1. a gown or dress worn by a girl or woman.
2. a loose outer garment worn by peasants and workers; smock.
3. a coarse outer garment with large sleeves, worn by monks.
4. frock coat.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with, or clothe in, a frock.
2. to invest with priestly or clerical office.

frock

/ frɒk /

noun

1. a girl's or woman's dress
2. a loose garment of several types, such as a peasant's smock
3. a coarse wide-sleeved outer garment worn by members of some religious orders

verb

1. tr to invest (a person) with the office or status of a cleric

Other Words From

• frockless adjective
• under·frock noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of frock¹

1300–50; Middle English froke < Old French froc < Frankish; compare Old Saxon, Old High German hroc coat

Word History and Origins

Origin of frock¹

C14: from Old French froc ; related to Old Saxon, Old High German hroc coat

Example Sentences

For Elsbeth’s first time at the opera, a Carolina Herrera rose-print frock ticked the “cacophony of colors and patterns” box but was still appropriate for the culturally rich setting.

From Los Angeles Times

It is summer in the Midwest, hot as soup, and I don a frock the size of a twin bed sheet in cooling cotton.

From Los Angeles Times

Given the “Garden of Time” theme and the last-minute nature of her frock, could we be in for a living garment in the form of flowers?

From BBC

Then here came the tailors for Mr. Cranston’s frock coat and morning coat and striped trousers and silk nightshirts with his initials sewed on.

From Literature

“C’mon now, Carmen had to get to her 90s before people cared,” she says, standing in her roughly 5,000-square-foot Kingston studio, about two hours north of New York City, on a rainy late spring morning, attired in her usual work garb of a knitted cap and an indigo Japanese frock coat now used as a smock, flecked with clay dust and wood chips.

From New York Times

Related Words

• apron
• gown
• robe