Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without a frock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of a frock.
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- adjective Without a
frock .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Having stripped his robe, I had no choice but to let him have the wearing of my good leathern jerkin and hose, for, as he said, it was chilling to the blood and unseemly to the eye to stand frockless whilst I made my orisons.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Having stripped his robe, I had no choice but to let him have the wearing of my good leathern jerkin and hose, for, as he said, it was chilling to the blood and unseemly to the eye to stand frockless whilst I made my orisons.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Having stripped his robe, I had no choice but to let him have the wearing of my good leathern jerkin and hose, for, as he said, it was chilling to the blood and unseemly to the eye to stand frockless whilst I made my orisons.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Having stripped his robe, I had no choice but to let him have the wearing of my good leathern jerkin and hose, for, as he said, it was chilling to the blood and unseemly to the eye to stand frockless whilst I made my orisons.
The White Company 1890
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Italian more than Briton, male than female, mitred than crowned head, gowned than armed, frocked than frockless; but seeketh after him whose conversation is the more peaceful, more civil, more loyal, and more profitable. '
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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