frock
.
Searchable Lemmata: frok (ME), froc (AF), froccus (L), frog (OScots), frock (MdE).
Alternate Forms: frog, froge, frogg, frogge, froke, frokke, frocke, frocque, frocs, frocos, frokkes.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
NOTE(n.)
Garment;
Frock generally referred to an overgarment worn by a man (often a monk), or in some uses to clothes/clothing in general. By the sixteenth century it developed figurative senses, such as Shakespeare's in Hamlet iii.iv.164, [qo. 2]: 'That monster custome ... to the vse of actions faire and good ... giues a frock or Liuery / That aptly is put on to refraine night'. The modern sense of frock as an outer garment, worn indoors, usually by women or by children (consisting of a gown and/or dress) appears only from the sixteenth century in British texts. Many related modern senses associated with 'frock' appear even later: a skirted coat, a military 'frock' (usually with a skirt or tails), the recent sense of a fashionable dress or outfit, etc.( still in current use)
Sex: Male, Female Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1a(n.)
Garment;
monk's habit; specifically a woollen garment worn by monks or friars, usually with large, open sleeves (cf. cope, cowl). Also (in MdE), a cassock (of Anglican clergymen).(ante 1170 - post 1885 ?)
3. in praecipuis solennitatibus alibi in tunicis tantum, quos frocos vocant ... responsorium canunt
Ecclesiastic/Regula.
[DMLBS LANFR. (Const. 86)]
4. hec supertunica: surcote ... hec capa duplex: cape furie ... hec manticapa: jape a maunches ... hoc fastrum: feuter ... hec fibula: tasel, lace ... hoc callobium: frok a moyne ... dicitur pro veste capa
Gloss.
[AND Gloss St John2 (368) circa 1250/1300]
5. [32] ... Þei gon full nobely arrayed in clothes of gold, orfrayed [F aoernez des orfraies] & apparayled with grete perles & precyous stones ...
[35+] ... Þei gon all bare fote & clothed in euyll garnementes, large wyde but þei ben schorte to the knees & longe sleves doun to the feet lych a Monkes frokke
[MED Mandev.(1) ((Tit C.16) 101/32-37) ante 1425]
6. [4.226] ... For xxiiii yerdes of brod wythtys for gowns, xxvii s. viii d. ... [4.230] ... To John Dewe for grey lynen cloth and sylk frenge for the hers, vi l. xvi s. ii d. ... A cope called a frogge of worsted for the Prior of Bromholm
[MED Paston (4.226-230) 1466]
Sex: Male Use: Ecclesiastical Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Back, Chest, Entire Body.
1b(n.)
Garment;
man's outer garment, such as a long coat, tunic or mantle; also, an under-coat. In more general use (in AF), clothes, clothing in general [AND2].(ante 1140 - post 1845 ?)
1. plebeii [Gallici] ... froccis sine collobiis de canabo ad modum panni saccorum teguntur; panno de lana ... solum in tunicis suis subtus froccas illas (sic) ... utuntur
Legal.
[DMLBS FORTESCUE (LLA 35) ante 1476]
Sex: Male Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Back, Chest, Entire Body.
1c(n.) ;
feather coverning (of a bird), perhaps used figuratively.(circa 1450)
Sex: N/A Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, Old French froc; L froccus from AF froc, frog / ME frok. [DMLBS]. The OED offers the following: 'Cf. Pr. floc frock, med.L. froccus, floccus. Some scholars regard the fl- forms as the original, and identify the word with L. floccus, OF. floc FLOCK n.2 Others regard froc as adopted from a Teut. word, OHG. hroch (once), OS. hroc (once), OFris. hrokk (rare); but in these forms it is believed by many Germanists that the hr- is a misspelling without phonetic significance, the usual forms being OHG. roch (mod.Ger. rock), OFris. rokk, OE. rocc.' [OED, 2nd ed. (1989), 'frock, n.'] - see rokke.
WF:
Etym Cog: froc (OF), ffrog (W).
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