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单词 frock
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Definition of frock in English:

frock

noun frɒkfrɑk
British
  • 1A woman's or girl's dress.

    女式礼服;连衣裙

    her new party frock
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Manet's woman is prettier, more pensive and more attractively dressed in a pink frock.
    • I then continued to resume the folding of various frocks and dresses that were mainly sewed by myself.
    • The little girl stood up and brushed the dirt off her frock, extending one flawless, beautiful hand.
    • The album is as pretty as a girl in a cotton frock skipping through a field of daisies - and it works.
    • As for the little girls, they were allowed to wear different coloured frocks and dresses.
    • She still straightened her frock, and those of the little girls.
    • Moe is a lass thoroughly caught up in Japan's Gosloli trend, in which she dresses up in retro frocks in a misguided effort to be cool.
    • Near an hour later, Lady Vivien emerged, dressed in a frock with silky red fabric accented in black.
    • Each child gets a shirt and the girls get a frock also.
    • The femme fatale showed off her curves in corseted cocktail frocks, clingy knits and tailored skirts.
    • Then there was the problem of how to dramatise something as simple as a girl in a new frock.
    • She was dressed in a tattered frock, and her hair was unwashed for days.
    • The little girls from the towns wore bright frocks of red, green, yellow, blue and various plaids.
    • The girl in the blue frock led Lia along a corridor leading from the banquet hall, until she found a room near the end of the wing with double doors and gold door handles.
    • The little girl in a pink frock cries because she wanted to paint with colour.
    • She figured it must have been about nine in the evening, as she quickly dressed in a clean frock.
    • If you are looking for something less expensive, Oasis has a good selection of pretty party frocks, including a 1950s-inspired chiffon frock with a discreet poppy print.
    • He had been there from the beginning, since the little girl in the pink frock had raised her scrubby fist and inquired fearfully about the ‘bad people.’
    • Her face was turned away as we entered, but we could see that she was dressed in a red frock, and that she had long white gloves on.
    • The drawing of a woman with big eyes, dark lashes and tightly knotted hair, dressed in a ruffled frock and sporting a fan, gave it away.
    Synonyms
    dress, gown, robe, shift
    garment, costume
  • 2A long gown with flowing sleeves worn by monks, priests, or clergy.

    僧袍,教士服

    the chaplain tottered in stiff splendid frocks
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A round, balding priest hurried down the center aisle, his black frock billowing behind him.
    • He wears a priest's collar and carries a machine gun under his frock.
    • These two beat up Sancho when he tries to take some friars' frocks as battle spoils.
    1. 2.1archaic The work and position of a priest.
      such words as these cost the preacher his frock

      布道师因说了诸如此类的话丢掉了他的教士职位。

  • 3historical An agricultural worker's smock; a smock-frock.

    1. 3.1archaic A woollen jersey worn by sailors.
      〈古〉(水手穿的)羊毛套衫
      his Cornish-knit frock
  • 4

    short for frock coat

Derivatives

  • frocked

  • adjective
    British
    • in combination a black-frocked Englishman

      身穿黑袍的英国人。

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French froc, of Germanic origin. The sense 'priest's or monk's gown' is preserved in defrock.

  • This comes from Old French froc, of Germanic origin. The original sense ‘priest's or monk's gown’ is preserved in defrock (late 16th century).

Rhymes

ad hoc, amok, Bangkok, baroque, belle époque, bloc, block, bock, brock, chock, chock-a-block, clock, doc, dock, floc, flock, hock, hough, interlock, jock, knock, langue d'oc, lock, Locke, Médoc, mock, nock, o'clock, pock, post hoc, roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, Spock, stock, wok, yapok

Definition of frock in US English:

frock

nounfrɑkfräk
British
  • 1A woman's or girl's dress.

    女式礼服;连衣裙

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She still straightened her frock, and those of the little girls.
    • I then continued to resume the folding of various frocks and dresses that were mainly sewed by myself.
    • Each child gets a shirt and the girls get a frock also.
    • He had been there from the beginning, since the little girl in the pink frock had raised her scrubby fist and inquired fearfully about the ‘bad people.’
    • Her face was turned away as we entered, but we could see that she was dressed in a red frock, and that she had long white gloves on.
    • The little girl stood up and brushed the dirt off her frock, extending one flawless, beautiful hand.
    • Near an hour later, Lady Vivien emerged, dressed in a frock with silky red fabric accented in black.
    • If you are looking for something less expensive, Oasis has a good selection of pretty party frocks, including a 1950s-inspired chiffon frock with a discreet poppy print.
    • The femme fatale showed off her curves in corseted cocktail frocks, clingy knits and tailored skirts.
    • The girl in the blue frock led Lia along a corridor leading from the banquet hall, until she found a room near the end of the wing with double doors and gold door handles.
    • The album is as pretty as a girl in a cotton frock skipping through a field of daisies - and it works.
    • As for the little girls, they were allowed to wear different coloured frocks and dresses.
    • The little girl in a pink frock cries because she wanted to paint with colour.
    • The little girls from the towns wore bright frocks of red, green, yellow, blue and various plaids.
    • Then there was the problem of how to dramatise something as simple as a girl in a new frock.
    • The drawing of a woman with big eyes, dark lashes and tightly knotted hair, dressed in a ruffled frock and sporting a fan, gave it away.
    • She figured it must have been about nine in the evening, as she quickly dressed in a clean frock.
    • Moe is a lass thoroughly caught up in Japan's Gosloli trend, in which she dresses up in retro frocks in a misguided effort to be cool.
    • Manet's woman is prettier, more pensive and more attractively dressed in a pink frock.
    • She was dressed in a tattered frock, and her hair was unwashed for days.
    Synonyms
    dress, gown, robe, shift
  • 2A long gown with flowing sleeves worn by monks, priests, or clergy.

    僧袍,教士服

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He wears a priest's collar and carries a machine gun under his frock.
    • A round, balding priest hurried down the center aisle, his black frock billowing behind him.
    • These two beat up Sancho when he tries to take some friars' frocks as battle spoils.
    1. 2.1archaic in singular The work and position of a priest.
      such words as these cost the preacher his frock

      布道师因说了诸如此类的话丢掉了他的教士职位。

  • 3historical A field laborer's smock.

    〈史〉(户外劳工穿的)工作服,罩衣

  • 4

    short for frock coat
verbfrɑkfräk
[with object]
  • 1Provide with or dress in a frock.

    he frocked himself in the most spectacular garb
    1. 1.1archaic Invest (someone) with priestly office.
      Compare with defrock

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French froc, of Germanic origin. The sense ‘priest's or monk's gown’ is preserved in defrock.

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