rochet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rochet
1350–1400; Middle English < Old French: outer garment < Germanic; compare Old English rocc outer garment
Example Sentences
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For the official ceremony, the new cardinals are expected to wear a red silk cassock topped with a white lace rochet and a short red cape over that.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2014
Last came the ample habit-coat of heavy cloth, topped by a linen rochet and a stiffly starched barbette of cambric .
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Stires, who entered the church wearing cassock and rochet, had stood humbly before the carved reredos while his attending presbyters garbed him in a chimere.
From Time Magazine Archive
You remember how you once dressed up a dog in a rochet, and dandled it before Gardiner?
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John
The insignia of the Anglican bishop are the rochet and the chimere, and the episcopal throne on the gospel side of the chancel of the cathedral church.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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