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rochets

rochets is the plural of rochet.

Meaning of rochet

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
  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.

Questions about rochets

What is rochets the plural of?
Rochets is the plural of rochet.

Words near rochets in the dictionary

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

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