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frock

[frok] / frɒk /
NOUN
women's garment
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This clash is in the heart of Israel, in which hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men in white shirts, black fedoras and long black frock coats face off against the military police.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

When Bertha’s down-to-earth sister, Monica, threatens to ruin the overall aesthetic with a dowdy frock, some light sabotage leads Monica to accept Bertha’s previously worn Season 1 gown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Heading into the exhibition I was eager to see what 18th-century ribbons and laces if not frock coats and gowns would be displayed as ancillary objects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

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

The lady wore an old-fashioned frock coat and her long black dress swished back and forth like a church bell.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

Emma Stone has opted for stunning, form-fitting frocks with plenty of embellishment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

Aksu used lots of lace, crochet, ruffles and intricate embellishments on suits and frocks.

From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2023

Jillian Anne Abaya, though always beautifully costumed in flirty white frocks, doesn’t quite offer the flighty, effervescent, pre-manic-pixie-dream-girl quality that Daisy requires, and Shahzeb Hussain has the bravado but not the menace of Tom.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

Lady Bute, smartly frocked, and twinkling with diamonds, sapphires, and ropes of pearls, was quite "Lothair's bride."

From A New Medley of Memories by David Hunter-Blair

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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