Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A knee-length cloak lined with brightly colored silk and often trimmed with fur that was worn by European men in the 1700s.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of short cloak much worn in the earlier part of the eighteenth century.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete a lined and trimmed
cloak that reaches to the knees
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Smirking, ignorant W. with lipstick in reply to a comment from roquelaure
Lieberman On Questioning Obama's Commitment To Israel: "Why Wouldn't I Do That?" 2009
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His first duty had been to converse with Mrs. Clantantram, and that lady had found it impossible to elicit the slightest sympathy from him on the subject of her roquelaure.
Barchester Towers 2004
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He accordingly launched himself upon the town in style; hired a man-servant; replenished his wardrobe at considerable expense, and appeared in a professional wig and cane, purple silk small-clothes, and a scarlet roquelaure buttoned to the chin: a fantastic garb, as we should think at the present day, but not unsuited to the fashion of the times.
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Presently he saw a gentleman, wrapped up in a roquelaure, alight and enter the inn, and in the next moment he heard the voice of the Marquis.
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His rights and dignities, however, were disregarded; his wig and cane and scarlet roquelaure were of no avail; Mrs. Sidebotham sided with the hero of the pestle and mortar; and Goldsmith flung out of the house in a passion.
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I wish the critics would settle, once for all, the costume of Aurora; at present she has clothes, fingers, feet, bosom, and hair, of as many colours as the roquelaure of Joseph.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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As he made his way with some difficulty through the throng, he was aware that he brushed against a man in a great peruke, who, despite the heat of the house, was wrapped in an old roquelaure tawdrily laced; also that the man was keeping stealthy pace with him, and that when he at last reached his station the cloaked figure fell into place immediately behind him.
Audrey Mary Johnston 1903
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He wore a dark purple roquelaure riding-jacket, faced and lapelled with gold lace, through the open front of which shone a silver breastplate.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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'You will have enough of battles before Monmouth exchanges his riding-hat for a crown, and his laced roquelaure for the royal purple,' quoth Saxon.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Mamma swallowed as if a dry artichoke was in her throat, as she said, slowly, "Why, colonel, you know you had not worn that coat for months, and as you have another one, and a _roquelaure_, and the coat was full of moth-holes, I exchanged it with the peddler for cut glass and plate."
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) Various 1887
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