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• The Sun ran the pic with the headline: “Beckham has got his Posh frock on.”2025 May 2, Zoe Williams, Sarah Gilbert, “David Beckham at 50: his gorgeous, outrageous life in 50 pictures”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry sarong
• Reactionary motifs are chic: Trump hats and “tradwife” frocks, monarchist and anti-feminist sentiments.2022 August 9, Julia Yost, “New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry tradwife
• He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand.2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 293. From the entry four-in-hand
• Get your pink frilly frocks out, zhuzh up your platinum locks.2013 February 21, Hilary Mantel, “Royal Bodies”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 4. From the entry zhuzh
• 'Guess the lady'll need plenty for her summer frocks,' said the conductor.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Silver Phantom”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 100. From the entry plenty
• This time it held a callow-headed baby in a pink frock.1944, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, London; Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers […], →OCLC, page 225, column 1. From the entry callow
• Frock coat, white carnation, slickem on your curly locks, everything on hand but a bride.1939, Careless Hussy, page 249. From the entry slickem
• "She was standing in front of the mirror unhooking her frock.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82. From the entry unhook
• Have you seen Trimmer in that frightful frock like a canary lampshade?1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night. From the entry subfusc
• And she found that she was not wearing a despised muslin frock!1913, Eleanor Gates, The Poor Little Rich Girl. From the entry gingham
• She wolfwhistled at Dorothy’s evening frock of deep purple.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 476. From the entry wolfwhistle
• Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN. From the entry garden
• It was the same Fanny but not the Fanny who climbed trees and tore her frock playing in the garden.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry difference
• A rather fanciful-looking little man in a black frock coat.1959, “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” (3:35 from the start), in The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Narrator (Rod Serling). From the entry frock coat
• She was wearing a long, pretty frock of palest blue georgette with a little jacket of white fur.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 87. From the entry georgette
• Roberts wore a robins’ egg blue chiffon frock.1942 March 4, Carolyn Bell, “Colorful Throng Attends ‘Blackout’ Symphony Concert”, in The Washington Post, number 24,002, page 14. From the entry robin's-egg blue
• Despite the screen makeup of frock coat and silk-topper in pictures he’s the most unassuming actor in Hollywood.1927 May 8, Orlando Morning Sentinel, volume XV, number 84, Orlando, Fla., section three, page eight. From the entry toppered
• Last time I saw you, you were a kiddy in short frocks, running around and shouting to beat the band.1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 7, in The Little Warrior. From the entry to beat the band
• Sweetie, do let me show you the dooziest little afternoon frock that Poiret designed for me in Paris.1920, Jane Barrett, “English review”, in High School Life, volume 21, page 531. From the entry doozy
• In her soft grey frock, with white ruffles at the wrists falling over her slender hands, she looked very beautiful.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 57. From the entry inscrutability
• Riding their bicycles aflash ladies were ladyly abashed when frocks bob-bobbed and, ducking the breeze, went rippling back from their glossy knees.1939, Time’s Wall Asunder, page 15. From the entry ladyly
• Out of her frock she was a woman; childhood discarded for ever with the skimpy rag that hid her body from male eyes.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 197. From the entry revisualize
• Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 47”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry shift
• Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292. From the entry Kelantan
• 'You've forgotten you gave me your money to look after before we left the house.' 'Guess the lady'll need plenty for her summer frocks,' said the conductor.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Silver Phantom”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 100. From the entry plenty
• Instead, she used a rejective wriggle to slither out of her frock, and there stood squirming, putting a shield of arms before her breasts and belly.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 197. From the entry unrobe
• Recovered from reverie, Miss Marley joined him, coming cautiously over the rocks in her flat-heeled shoes, and skimping back her frock a little to mark her step.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 128. From the entry flat-heeled
• She liked the cold water of the mill-race, and without shame or hesitation would throw off her frock and float like a mermaid, almost invisible, in the watery element.1935, Benedict Read, The Green Child, Capuchin, published 2010, page 36. From the entry mill race
• They were a grave and reverend seignior in a frock coat, a lady sitting at a portable harmonium, and a chinless youth toying with a crucifix.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, page 244. From the entry harmonium
• Now, Horn & Udell are responsible for the bloomers your small daughter wears under her play frock, in place of the troublesome and extravagant petticoat of the old days.1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself. From the entry bloomers
• Friday there were so thin summer frocks to be seen, those that replaced seemed becoming and suitable, and of very hot and gloriously fine summer, was buried with millineric honours!1907, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, page 144. From the entry millineric

Meaning of frock

1. noun A dress, a piece of clothing, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.
2. noun An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals; a habit.
3. noun A sailor's jersey.

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How do you use frock in a sentence?

Frock is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.”

What is a short sentence with frock?

“Roberts wore a robins’ egg blue chiffon frock.”

What does frock mean?

Frock means a dress, a piece of clothing, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.