befrocked
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]befrocked (not comparable)
- Wearing a frock.
- 1862 July, “George Frederick Handel”, in British Quarterly Review, volume 36, page 40:
- The cases of Telemann, Mozart, and Mendelssohn, who, in their befrocked childhood, threw off sonatas and fugues to the amazement of those who best knew the depth and breadth of the faculty required for their production, are full of curious psychological interest […]
- 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate[1], Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, published 1967, Part I, Chapter 1, p. 10:
- A bearded, befrocked old man with a very large face muttered in Hebrew to the infant […]
- 2011 April 29, Rosie DiManno, “Will and Kate wedding a fairy tale sprung to life”, in Toronto Star:
- The guests were suitably befrocked and morning-suited for the festivities — a semi-state occasion — in their fine clothes, fascinators and some quite inventive full-on lids […]