underfrock
underfrock noun: an underslip worn beneath a dress (frock).
Noun
underfrock (plural underfrocks)
- An underslip worn beneath a dress (frock).
- Holonyms: underclothes, underclothing
- An undergarment beneath another type of frock.
- Holonyms: underclothes, underclothing
- [Footnote:] *Plutarch's Greek word is exomis, a woollen shirt with the right side open to leave the right arm and shoulder free. —Without any thing, nudus, sometimes means, with only the tunic, or ordinary woollen shirt or under-frock, but here it seems to be almost literal, with only a cloth about...1891 [1684], Plutarch, “Marcus Cato”, in John Dryden, transl., edited by Arthur Hugh Clough, Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's. Corrected From the Greek and Revised, volume 2, Little...
Forms of underfrock
| plural | underfrocks |
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Origin of underfrock
From under- + frock.
Questions about underfrock
- What does underfrock mean?
- Underfrock means an underslip worn beneath a dress (frock).
- What part of speech is underfrock?
- Underfrock is a noun.
- What is the plural of underfrock?
- The plural of underfrock is underfrocks.
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