Frocking

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A fabric suitable for making frocks; specifically, coarse jean or other material used for smock-frocks.
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  • verb. Present participle of frock.
  • Word Usage
    "For while the secular world has produced many advances -- the emancipation of women being a big one, including, notably, the frocking of women in some Protestant denominations -- the secular world has also blurred the moral line in the culture, the line that gives meaning and value to life, and in so doing has produced ... junkier results: the mainstreaming of pornography, for one example."
    verb-stem
    frock