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
They took the vows of chastity and poverty, and their habit was a long black cassock with a white rochet over it, having over that a black cloak and hood.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
After this the new bishop, who has so far been vested only in a rochet, retires and puts on the rest of the episcopal habit, viz. the chimere.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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