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Definition of Frocking
1. frock [v] - See also: frock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frocking
Literary usage of Frocking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General and Flag Officers: Number Required Is Unclear Based on Dods Draft Report by Sharon A. Cekala (1997)
"On the other hand, the other services made no recommendations on frocking, which
would lead to a combined drop of 23 for the Navy, Air Force, ..."
2. Exhibition (1844)
"One Piece of frocking. 1132, and 1329. CHARLES WARREN, & Co., Boston. Hosiery,
Drawers, and Three Pieces of frocking. All entitled to the special ..."
3. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"Many boys grew to manhood never wearing, except on Sundays, any kind of coat save
a long, loose, shapeless jacket or smock of this striped frocking, ..."
4. History of the Town of Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire by Richard Watson Musgrove (1904)
"WA Beckford commenced the manufacture of yarns, using one set of cards for the
purpose, while his father and brother were making frocking. ..."
5. The Essex Memorial, for 1836: Embracing a Register of the County by James Robinson Newhall (1836)
"Upon the same River, about one mile above, another woollen factory is preparing
to go into operation, at which it is intended to manufacture frocking, ..."
6. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... churn, make cheese and soap, braid a palm-leaf hat complete, knit, spin and
even " put in a piece " in an old-fashioned hand loom, and weave frocking. ..."
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