rocquet
rocquet is the alternative form of rochet.
Meaning of rochet
Noun (1)
rochet (plural rochets)
- 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
- A frock or outer garment worn in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Noun (2)
rochet (plural rochets)
- The red gurnard.
Forms of rocquet
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Questions about rocquet
- What is rocquet the alternative form of?
- Rocquet is the alternative form of rochet.
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