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frock

[frok] / frɒk /
NOUN
women's garment
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Heading into the exhibition I was eager to see what 18th-century ribbons and laces if not frock coats and gowns would be displayed as ancillary objects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

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

He was popularized by 1980s pop star Adam Ant, who donned a frock coat and tricorn hat and had a hit with Turpin’s famous slogan, “Stand and Deliver.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

The boy in the frock coat who’d drowned in the well.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

While living in the Shelbourne Hotel, she took on roles very different from her wartime escapades, waitressing in cafes and selling frocks in Harrods, before taking a job as a cleaner on a passenger ship.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024

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

Littledemons were mudbrown in Airport-Fairy frocks with forehead bumps that might turn into horns.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

Your holiness will breakfast with us, of course; and these two frocked gentlemen likewise.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley

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

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




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