frock > define

noun

• A habit worn by clerics.
• A one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice.
  • synonyms: dress

verb

• Put a frock on. .

• (v.t.) To clothe in a frock.
• (n.) A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.
• (n.) A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.
• (v.t.) To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.