frock: [14] Frock is a Germanic word, although English acquired it via Old French froc. It originally meant ‘long coat or tunic’ – a sense reflected in the related Old High German hroc ‘mantle, coat’, and preserved in English frock coat and unfrock ‘dismiss from the office of clergyman’ (frock once having denoted a ‘priest’s cassock’, and hence symbolized the priestly office). Its application to a ‘woman’s dress’ dates from the 16th century.
frock (n.)
mid-14c., from Old French froc "a monk's habit; clothing, dress" (12c.), which is of unknown origin; perhaps from Frankish *hrok or some other Germanic source (compare Old High German hroc "mantle, coat;" Old Norse rokkr, Old English rocc, Old Frisian rokk, German Rock "a coat, over-garment"). Another theory traces it to an alteration of Medieval Latin floccus, from Latin floccus "flock of wool." Meaning "outer garment for women or children" is from 1530s. Frock-coat attested by 1819.
雙語例句
1. Few Englishmen wear frock coats now. They went out years ago.
現在,英國人很少穿大禮服了, 大禮服在多年以前就不時興了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. That frock shows your petticoat.
那件上衣太短,讓你的襯裙露出來了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. The frock is now out of style.
這種女上衣已不時新了.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
4. She stood up and smoothed down her frock.
她站起身，抹平了裙子。
來自辭典例句
5. I do hope you have some other frock besides that one.