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Definition of Frocked
1. a. Clothed in a frock.
Definition of Frocked
1. Verb. (past of frock) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frocked
1. frock [v] - See also: frock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frocked
Literary usage of Frocked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General and Flag Officers: Number Required Is Unclear Based on Dods Draft Report by Sharon A. Cekala (1997)
""l2 Under 10 USC § 777, an officer may be frocked to brigadier general/rear ...
frocked officers are not paid the salary of the higher rank until promoted. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1851)
"... and a few smock-frocked peasants from the workhouse, with a sprinkling
of "civil-power" gentlemen strongly recommended by the magistrates, ..."
3. The Life of John Bright by George Macaulay Trevelyan (1913)
"‘We have attended meetings in those districts,' said Bright, ‘and have been
received with the utmost enthusiasm by these round-frocked laborers. ..."
4. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1867)
"... east, and west flew the bare-footed, serge-frocked champions of orthodoxy.
... they need not be celibates, much less serge-frocked monks or friars, ..."
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