frock
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A Hansel-like puppet dressed in a frock made of leaves danced along to the song while fairy-like puppets made of brightly colored flowers swayed in circles around him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
After spotting the moss green, knee-length frock with matching bolero jacket in the window of her local J.J.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
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 ● May 6, 2024
Their bodies were their canvases, which they bedecked in feather boas, tutus, corsets, Victorian petticoats, Edwardian frock coats, wigs, wings, headdresses, ribbons, sequins, rhinestones, satin, face paint and an abundance of glitter.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
The lady wore an old-fashioned frock coat and her long black dress swished back and forth like a church bell.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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This year’s big Cannes fashion headline is that women are no longer allowed to wear “voluminous” frocks on the steps.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
Unto her she gathers Instagram influencers decked out in Anthropologie-style frocks who rave about nonsensical treatments that Eva clearly made up.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2023
Aksu used lots of lace, crochet, ruffles and intricate embellishments on suits and frocks.
From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2023
It was shot in Yorkshire, the northern English county where Brontë lived most of her life, and features the frocks, pretty bonnets, candlelit rooms and horse-drawn carriages of the era.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
I helped Safa and Rabia put on their matching yellow frocks for the mehndi.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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Her majesty was frocked in a delicately flared dress of lime, lemon, purple silk — a spring- season Popsicle — which the 92-year-old monarch managed to pull off.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2018
The Australian actress - who was up for an award for her work in Lion - frocked up in a green Gucci gown adorned with feathered parrot heads.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2017
Laura Ford's neatly frocked little girl paddling forlornly in her wellies has her head shrouded in a looming plaster cloud.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010
Last week Tijuana was parading a newfound reputation as a respectable, commercially solid city, frocked out in its Sunday best for a three-week international trade show called Mexpo.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He was a tall, well-built man, perfectly uniformed in his double-breasted frocked tunic, blue-eyed, blond-bearded, and immaculate of hand and face, a fine type of man and a credit to any army.
From The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Many boys grew to manhood never wearing, except on Sundays, any kind of coat save a long, loose, shapeless jacket or smock of this striped frocking, known everywhere as a long-short.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
A universal stuff woven in New Hampshire by the Scotch-Irish linen-weavers who settled there, and who influenced husbandry and domestic manufactures and customs all around them, was what was known as striped frocking.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
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