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frock
a coarse wide-sleeved outer garment worn by members of some religious orders
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Frocks were made or altered and washed, seams and flounces were let out, buttons were sewn on, and ribbons got ready.
I rolled up the sleeve of my frock, and squeezed the moisture it contained into my parched mouth.
But when they had broken open the door they found no one within; and as they came back into the house, Ashputtel was lying, as she always did, in her dirty frock by the ashes, and her dim little lamp was burning in the chimney.
She laughed, and in fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced from the folds of her frock.
He'll break my heart, he will, Peggy," she would whimper to her sister-in-law when they were good friends; "sure every one of me frocks must be taken in-- it's such a skeleton I'm growing.
answered the Jester; ``a broadcloth penitent should have a sackcloth confessor, and your frock may absolve my motley doublet into the bargain.
The most substantial part consisted of women from the smaller manufacturing towns, who were too elegant to have their frocks made locally and not sufficiently acquainted with London to discover good dressmakers within their means.
It was not a very long chain, only allowing the locket to hang a little way below the edge of her frock.
I wiped his eyes with his frock, told him he was all right and called Sancho to pacify him.
It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty frock.
In addition to the distinction of a white frock, every woman and girl carried in her right hand a peeled willow wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers.
She said she'd have her frocks and a lot of other traps took out of her room if they was in Uncle Harvey's way, but he said they warn't.
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