to frock
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8.9
- verb
- /frɑk/
- Jargon
:
imponer el hábito
- Before the event began, the officials frocked themselves in their formal attire.
- black frocked
- white frocked
Examples
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The Tribal, I find, is slower and less "fun" in many ways, but it's got a bit more of a challenge and also more opportunity to get all frocked up (and I do love costuming!).
Blog text (10) -
She was frocked in a beautiful gown for the wedding ceremony.
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I will demonstrate to these ladies that I'm still a frocked minister of the gospel.
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BERNADETTE: Come on, Adam, let's get frocked.
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Black-frocked men stared at him, their severe attire evoking an earlier pain.
Fiction book (1992) -
Just as I was wondering if they had arrived by ship or by plane, a problem seemed to have developed, for the white-frocked attendant with her ash-blonde wig had delivered bad news.
Fiction book (1991) -
I saw it find my handsome wife and dally there a second, touching with the full hand of light her fine aristocratic face; and then I saw the camera touch my daughter, sniffing her out like a bird dog, feeling its way up her slim, yellow-frocked body to her face, which shone with the full light of innocence and morning.
Fiction book (1990) -
Under a roving carnival-like atmosphere, the curious mingled with the serious, and the serious mixed with the shoppers and became lost behind gracefully frocked ladies with spreading hats and wondering parasols.
Fiction book (1996) -
He took the back roads home, avoiding the town entirely, uncertain of what was the greater cause for embarrassment: the sight of the town or of himself and this woman, frocked up in an outfit a mail-order catalogue might describe as old-fashioned country-western.
Fiction book (1995) -
The priest frocked the children in their ceremonial robes for the special service.
Synonyms
178
2.7
Put on special clothes for an event or to look attractive
7
4.6
To put on special clothes to look nice or impressive
4
5.0
To dress someone in a long loose garment for a ceremony
3
6.9
To put a long formal robe on someone for a ceremony
2
7.9
To dress someone in clothes of a special type
1
7.8
To put on special religious or ceremonial clothes
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
2
9.9
A formal coat for men with skirts that reach the knees, common in the 1800s
How Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Frock as a verb comes from the noun frock and means to dress someone in that robe; a helpful way to remember it is to think of being 'frocked' as being put into the special ceremonial garment during a ceremony.