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rockalow

rockalow is the obsolete spelling of roquelaure.

Meaning of roquelaure

Noun

roquelaure (plural roquelaures)

  1. (archaic, historical) A lined and trimmed cloak that reaches to the knees, often with bright-coloured lining and trimmed with fur.
    • Putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

Forms of rockalow

pluralrockalows

Questions about rockalow

What is rockalow the obsolete spelling of?
Rockalow is the obsolete spelling of roquelaure.

Words near rockalow in the dictionary

  1. rockaire
  2. rockaires
  3. rockairs
  4. Rockall
  5. rockallite
  6. rockalow
  7. rockalows
  8. rockathon
  9. rockathons
  10. rockaway
  11. Rockaway Point

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rockalow (page history and authors); roquelaure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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