Rochet

Full definition of rochet

Noun

1. A white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church.
• 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv:Each priest adorn'd was in a surplice white,
• The bishops don'd their albes and copes of state,
• Above their rochets button'd fair before,And mitres on their heads like crowns they wore.
• BurkeThey see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet.
• A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Probably corrupted from French rouget.

Noun

1. A fish, the red gurnard.