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FROCK , originally a long, looseSee also: gown with broad sleeves, more especially that worn by members of the religious orders
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The word is derived from the O
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Fr. froc, of somewhat obscure origin; in See also: medieval See also: Lat. froccus appears also as floccus, which, if it is the See also: original, as Du Cange suggests (literula mutata), would connect the word with " fleck " (q.v.), properly a tuft of wool
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Another See also: suggestion refers the word to the See also: German See also: Rock, a coat (cf
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" rochet "), which in some rare instances is found as hrock
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The formal stripping off of the frock became See also: part of the ceremony of degradation or deprivation in the See also: case of a condemned See also: monk; hence the expression " to unfrock " (med
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Lat. defrocare, Fr. defroquer) used of the degradation of monks and of priests from
See also: holy orders
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In the See also: middle ages " frock "was also used of a long loose coat worn by men and of a coat of See also: mail, the "frock of mail." In something of this sense the word survived into the 19th century for a coat with long skirts, now called the " frock coat." The word in now chiefly used in See also: English for a See also: child's or See also: young girl's dress, of See also: body and skirt, but is frequently used of a woman's dress
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Du Cange (Glossarium, s.v. floats) quotes an early use of the word for a woman's garment (Miracula S
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Udalrici, ap
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See also: Mabillon, Ada Sanctorum Benedict. saec. v. p
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466)
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Here a woman, possessed of a devil, is cured, and sends her garments to theSee also: tomb of the See also: saint, and a dalmatic is ordered to be made out of the flocus or frocus
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" Frock " also appears in the " smock frock," once the typical See also: outer garment of the English peasant
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It consists of a loose See also: shirt of See also: linen or other material, worn over the other clothes and See also: hanging to about the knee; its characteristic feature is the " smocking," a puckered See also: honeycomb stitching round the neck and shoulders
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