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befrocked

befrocked adjective: wearing a frock.

Adjective

befrocked (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a frock.
    • The cases of Telemann, Mozart, and Mendelssohn, who, in their befrocked childhood, threw off sonatas and fugues to the amazement of those who best knew the depth and breadth of the faculty required for their production, are full of curious psychological interest […]1862 July, “George Frederick Handel”, in British Quarterly Review, volume 36, page 40
    • A bearded, befrocked old man with a very large face muttered in Hebrew to the infant […]1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, published 1967, Part I, Chapter 1, p. 10

Origin of befrocked

From be- + frock + -ed.

Questions about befrocked

What does befrocked mean?
Befrocked means wearing a frock.
What part of speech is befrocked?
Befrocked is an adjective.

Words near befrocked in the dictionary

  1. befrills
  2. befringe
  3. befringed
  4. befringes
  5. befringing
  6. befrocked
  7. befrogged
  8. befrost
  9. befrosted
  10. befrosting
  11. befrosts

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