frock

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

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 ● Nov. 7, 2024

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

She sort of shrugged her shoulders, the way she did before, and then she said, very cold, "Do you mind getting me my frock? Or would it be too much trouble?"

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

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

Ministers publicly describe the fuss over frocks and football tickets as a "distraction" - a word politicians like to use when they are describing something they know is embarrassing and find hard to explain.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 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

She laughed and called for her children, who all danced up, dressed weirdly in little elfin frocks.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

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

This change separates the old world of dress from the new; it is the advent of frocked coats, the ancestor of our frock-coat.

From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop

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