Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Clothed in a frock.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
frock .
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Examples
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The message announced tersely that Lieutenant Commander Robert A. Toland, III, USNR, had been "frocked" as a Commander, USNR, which gave him the right to wear the three gold stripes of a commander, but not to collect a commander's pay just yet.
Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986
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No more compulsory vows, no "frocked" younger sons "to make an elder," no girls immured from infancy, kept in the convent throughout their youth, led on, urged, and then driven into a corner and forced into the final engagement on becoming of age; no more aristocratic institutions, no
The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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The broadcast invariably communicated something about their great society, envy of the world, then gave a rambling weather report, and ended with frocked maidens dancing a polka.
Lorelei Kelly: Meet the New Soviets: Gingrich, Walker, Breitbart Lorelei Kelly 2011
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So it took two whole paragraphs to develop the frocked up FKN HAVOCK!! character?!
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The broadcast invariably communicated something about their great society, envy of the world, then gave a rambling weather report, and ended with frocked maidens dancing a polka.
Lorelei Kelly: Meet the New Soviets: Gingrich, Walker, Breitbart Lorelei Kelly 2011
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In other cases, the processes used to work with difficult conflicts harkened back to white wigs, frocked coats, and silk stockings.
Doug Noll: Time for a Different Way Doug Noll 2010
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In other cases, the processes used to work with difficult conflicts harkened back to white wigs, frocked coats, and silk stockings.
Doug Noll: Time for a Different Way Doug Noll 2010
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In other cases, the processes used to work with difficult conflicts harkened back to white wigs, frocked coats, and silk stockings.
Doug Noll: Time for a Different Way Doug Noll 2010
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The stars come out in all their feathery frocked finery (and seem to drink rather freely, judging from shows past), and one gets to watch the weird, awkward high-school hierarchy of television actors mixing it up with big movie stars.
The Week in DVR 2010
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The stars come out in all their feathery frocked finery (and seem to drink rather freely, judging from shows past), and one gets to watch the weird, awkward high-school hierarchy of television actors mixing it up with big movie stars.
The Week in DVR 2010
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