Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white ceremonial vestment made of linen or lawn, worn by bishops and other church dignitaries.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, a short cloak worn by men of all degrees, also by women (in this case frequently a white linen outer garment).
- noun Eccles., a close-fitting vestment of linen or lawn, worn by bishops and some others.
- noun Hence, a bishop: also used attributively.
- noun A mantelet worn by the peers of England during ceremonies.
- To invest with a rochet.
- noun A kind of fish, the roach or piper gurnard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.) A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies.
- noun obsolete A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
- noun (Zoöl.) The red gurnard, or gurnet. See
gurnard .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The name rochet (from the medieval roccus) was scarcely in use before the thirteenth century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Lateran Congregation is a white woolen cassock with a linen rochet, which is worn as an essential part of the daily dress.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga, a very beautiful kneeling figure, robed in the habit of a Cardinal, with the rochet, which is also a portrait from life; and in front of that Cardinal is a portrait of Signora Leonora, the daughter of the same Marquis, who was then a girl, and afterwards became Duchess of Urbino.
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi Giorgio Vasari 1542
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Then the two deacons assistants to the throne, who are wearing rochet instead of the albs, and no maniples.
A View into the Pontifical Archiepiscopal Mass in the Ambrosian Rite 2009
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If a bishop, I think a rochet might be more likely.
Making Light: Beating airport chemical detection systems 2010
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He sits on a tasseled throne and wears vestments consisting of a diaphanous white rochet and red skullcap: he is Francesco della Rovere, Pope Sixtus IV.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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Fight for the bishops, says a priest, with his gown and rochet — Stand stout for the Kirk, cries a minister, in a
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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But it was long ere these scandalous and immoral sports could be abrogated; — the rude multitude continued attached to their favourite pastimes, and, both in England and Scotland, the mitre of the Catholic — the rochet of the reformed bishop — and the cloak and band of the Calvinistic divine — were, in turn, compelled to give place to those jocular personages, the Pope of
The Abbot 2008
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As surpluis and rochet, and suche linnen garmentes: shauen crownes, tourninges at the altare, our masse solempnities, our organes, our knielinges, crouchinges, praiers, and other of that kinde.
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It is the likeness of a pope, answered Pantagruel; I know it by the triple crown, his furred amice, his rochet, and his slipper.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
hernesheir commented on the word rochet
(n.): A religious vestment consisting of an over-tunic usually made of fine white linen, cambric, or fine cotton material, that extends to the knees.
September 19, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word rochet
"Now then, here's a prior. We know him, too, from the violet rochet he wears, as do all canons of Saint Augustine."
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin, p 2 of the Berkley paperback edition
February 24, 2012