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Definition of Frocks
1. frock [v] - See also: frock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frocks
Literary usage of Frocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition by John Murdoch (1892)
"Two frocks are always worn oy both sexes except in the house, ... The difference
in shape between the frocks of the two sexes has been already mentioned. ..."
2. Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country: In South Africa by Allen Francis Gardiner (1836)
"Red caps and tattered frocks they wore, With brigantines besmeared with gore,
Like border bandits lowering. In strange confusion, round them strewed, ..."
3. The Art-literature Readers by Eulalie Osgood Grover, Frances Elizabeth Chutter (1904)
"We wonder if you wear frocks like ours. We wear these frocks until we are quite
big boys. We have to work very hard in school. ..."
4. The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman (1891)
"Week by week there comes to him a letter from the country from a long- limbed
girl in short frocks, whose hero he is. Time, which, like Procrustes' bed, ..."
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