frock
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Don’t panic buy a pastel frock for your garden party or beach soirée.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Astrid’s bespoke sunflower frock came from Atwood’s treasure trove of materials, and there was no room for error.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
Given the “Garden of Time” theme and the last-minute nature of her frock, could we be in for a living garment in the form of flowers?
From BBC ● May 6, 2024
Their bodies were their canvases, which they bedecked in feather boas, tutus, corsets, Victorian petticoats, Edwardian frock coats, wigs, wings, headdresses, ribbons, sequins, rhinestones, satin, face paint and an abundance of glitter.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
She stood quite still, her face working, her hands clutching the black stuff of her frock.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
One reason he endures is because a lot of the society we see is Grace Kelly in beautiful frocks and Cary Grant in gorgeous suits in cocktail world drawing rooms.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2024
Ministers publicly describe the fuss over frocks and football tickets as a "distraction" - a word politicians like to use when they are describing something they know is embarrassing and find hard to explain.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2024
Emma Stone has opted for stunning, form-fitting frocks with plenty of embellishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
Then came trouser suits and coats alongside sheer, and sometimes embroidered, frocks in lace, tulle and chiffon.
From Reuters ● Feb. 25, 2023
Littledemons were mudbrown in Airport-Fairy frocks with forehead bumps that might turn into horns.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Her majesty was frocked in a delicately flared dress of lime, lemon, purple silk — a spring- season Popsicle — which the 92-year-old monarch managed to pull off.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2018
The Australian actress - who was up for an award for her work in Lion - frocked up in a green Gucci gown adorned with feathered parrot heads.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2017
Laura Ford's neatly frocked little girl paddling forlornly in her wellies has her head shrouded in a looming plaster cloud.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010
Last week Tijuana was parading a newfound reputation as a respectable, commercially solid city, frocked out in its Sunday best for a three-week international trade show called Mexpo.
From Time Magazine Archive
This change separates the old world of dress from the new; it is the advent of frocked coats, the ancestor of our frock-coat.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
Many boys grew to manhood never wearing, except on Sundays, any kind of coat save a long, loose, shapeless jacket or smock of this striped frocking, known everywhere as a long-short.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
A universal stuff woven in New Hampshire by the Scotch-Irish linen-weavers who settled there, and who influenced husbandry and domestic manufactures and customs all around them, was what was known as striped frocking.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
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