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Webster 1913 Edition
Rochet
Roch′et
,Noun.
[F., dim. fr. OHG.
rocch
coat, G. rock
.] 1.
(Eccl.)
A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies.
They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a
rochet
. Burke.
2.
A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
[Obs.]
Rom. of R.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rochet
ROCH'ET
, n.A surplice; the white upper garment of a priest worn while officiating.
ROCH'ET
,Noun.
Definition 2024
rochet
rochet
See also: röchet
English
Noun
rochet (plural rochets)
A group of canons wearing white rochets under black mozzettas.
- A white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv:
- Each priest adorn'd was in a surplice white, / The bishops don'd their albes and copes of state, // Above their rochets button'd fair before, / And mitres on their heads like crowns they wore.
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
- They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv:
- A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Rom. of R to this entry?)
Etymology 2
Probably corrupted from French rouget.
Noun
rochet (plural rochets)
- A fish, the red gurnard.