different between rochet vs cassock

English

Etymology 1

Middle English roket, rochet, from Anglo-Norman rochet, Middle French rochet, from Frankish (cf. Old English rocc (“overgarment”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t??t/

Noun

rochet (plural rochets)

1. A white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church. [from 12th c.]
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv:

     Each priest adorn'd was in a surplice white, / The bishops don'd their albes and copes of state, // Above their rochets button'd fair before, / And mitres on their heads like crowns they wore.

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:

     They will tell you that they see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet.

2. (now rare, historical) A frock or outer garment worn in the 13th and 14th centuries. [from 14th c.]

Etymology 2

From Middle English roget, from Middle French rouget.

Noun

rochet (plural rochets)

1. (obsolete) The red gurnard. [14th–19th c.]

Anagrams

• Hector, Troche, hector, orchet, rotche, tocher, troche

Czech

Noun

rochet

1. genitive plural of rocheta

French

Etymology 1

Old French rochet, ultimately from Frankish *hrokk.

Noun

rochet m (plural rochets)

1. rochet

Etymology 2

From Frankish *rokko, perhaps under influence of Etymology 1, above.

Noun

rochet m (plural rochets)

1. ratchet

Descendants

• ? English: ratchet

Further reading

• “rochet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

rochet

1. Alternative form of roget

English

Etymology

From Middle French casaque (“cloak”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kas?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæs?k/

Noun

cassock (plural cassocks)

1. (obsolete) A military cloak or long coat worn by soldiers or horsemen in the 16th and 17th centuries. [16th-17th c.]
2. (obsolete) A coarse, loose cloak or gown, worn by women, sailors, shepherds, countryfolk etc. [16th-17th c.]
3. An item of clerical clothing: a long, sheath-like, close-fitting, ankle-length robe worn by clergy members of some Christian denominations. [from 17th c.]

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Anagrams

• Cossack, cossack