frock

[US]/frɒk/
[UK]/frɑk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a long loose outer garment worn by a priest or clergyman, a gown

Phrases & Collocations

wearing a frock

beautiful frock

traditional frock

summer frock

Example Sentences

the skirt of her frock ripped.

That frock shows your petticoat.

she wore a grey frock, discreet and asexual.

she wore a shapeless frock and no make-up.

Few Englishmen wear frock coats now.They went out years ago.

At the end of the cotillion, the old count in his blue frock coat went up to the young people who had been dancing.

and some had linsey-woolsey frocks, some gingham ones, and a few of the young ones had on calico.

In costumes more extravagant than any Gaultier concert frocks, he revealed an actor's narcissism, neediness , daring.

Every time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took hygienic precautions.

He was dressed in a dark-green frock coat, breeches of the colour of the cuisse de nymphe effrayée, as he called it, stockings and slippers.

Real-world Examples

She always makes the same frock.

Source: Downton Abbey Detailed Analysis

He licked her hands and made a whining noise, and then began gently to pull her frock.

Source: British Original Language Textbook Volume 2

Pat Nixon's frocks are given an outing.

Source: The Economist - International

Poor old Madame Swan. I don't know why we bother with fittings. She always makes the same frock.

Source: Downton Abbey (Audio Segmented Version) Season 1

The key to looking sexy in a strapless frock? A flawless fit.

Source: Beauty and Fashion English

I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet.

Source: Gone with the Wind

" Why have you that silk frock on, then? " he said. " Nobody coming here, I hope? "

Source: Wuthering Heights (abridged version)

Will you have your own way, do you think? With the frock? Only I couldn't help overhearing yesterday.

Source: Downton Abbey (Audio Segmented Version) Season 1

The panic that a dinner won't be ready, or a frock isn't ironed, or a gun wasn't cleaned.

Source: Downton Abbey (Audio Segmented Version) Season 3

But she had on a plain woolen frock.

Source: Blade (Part 1)

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