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rochet

/ˈɹɒtʃɪt/

rochet noun: a white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church.

rochet: a white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending...
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Noun (1)

rochet (plural rochets)

  1. A white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church.
    • Each priest adorn'd was in a surplice white, / The bishops don'd their albes and copes of state, // Above their rochets button'd fair before, / And mitres on their heads like crowns they wore.1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv
    • Or elſe they vvould ſtraine us out a certaine figurative Prelat, by vvringing the collective allegory of thoſe ſeven Angels into ſeven ſingle Rochets.1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “To the Argument of B[ishop] Andrews and the Primat”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn...
  2. (archaic, historical) A frock or outer garment worn in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Noun (2)

rochet (plural rochets)

  1. (obsolete) The red gurnard.

Forms of rochet

pluralrochets

Origin of rochet

From Middle English roket, rochet, from Anglo-Norman rochet, Middle French rochet, from Frankish (cf. Old English rocc (“overgarment”)).

From Middle English roget, from Middle French rouget.

Words formed from rochet

Questions about rochet

What does rochet mean?
Rochet means a white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church.
What part of speech is rochet?
Rochet is a noun.
How do you pronounce rochet?
Rochet is pronounced /ˈɹɒtʃɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of rochet?
The plural of rochet is rochets.

Words near rochet in the dictionary

  1. roches moutonnées
  2. Rochester
  3. Rochester Hills
  4. Rochesterian
  5. Rochesterians
  6. rochet
  7. rocheted
  8. rochets
  9. Rochette
  10. Rochettes
  11. Rochford

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