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''Frock'' has been used since Middle English as the name for an article of clothing for men and women. In British English and in Commonwealth countries the word is used for a girl's or woman's dress. In Australia it is frequently used this way, with the phrase "to frock up" meaning to wear a formal dress or gown for a special occasion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Macquarie Dictionary ) 〕 == History == Originally, a ''frock'' was a loose, long garment with wide, full sleeves, such as the habit of a monk or priest, commonly belted. (This is the origin of the modern term defrock or unfrock, meaning "to eject from the priesthood".) The term has been continually applied to various types of clothing, generally denoting a loosely fitted garment: * From the 16th century to the early 20th century, ''frock'' was applied to a woman's dress or gown, in the fashion of the day, often indicating an unfitted, comfortable garment for wear in the house, or (later) a light overdress worn with a slip or underdress. * From the 17th century on, a ''frock'' is a thigh- or full-length loose outer garment worn by shepherds, workmen, and farm workers in Britain, generally of heavy linen with a broad flat collar, now usually called a smock-frock. In some areas, this traditional frock buttons up the front in the manner of a coat, while in others it is a pullover style. * In the 18th century in Britain and America, a ''frock'' was an unfitted men's coat for hunting or other country pursuits, with a broad, flat collar, derived from the traditional working-class frock. Late in the 18th century it came to be made with a cutaway front without a waist seam and this may have evolved into the standard dress coat with horizontally cutaway fronts worn for daytime wear by the early 19th century and from which the modern tail coat for white tie is derived. The great coat may similarly be historically derived from the frock as it similarly is single breasted, with a high and broad collar, waist pockets, and also lacked a waist seam early in its history as can be seen in an example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The precise historical evolution of the frock after the second half of the 18th century is obscure, however it is likely that the frock was gradually supplanted by the frock coat in the early 19th century, eventually being relegated to evening dress. The frock coat in turn became cut away into the modern coat, giving us the two modern coats with tails. * ''Frock'' (especially in the phrase "short frock") is also a child's dress or light overdress. * A ''frock'' is a dense knitted overgarment worn by sailors and fishermen, as ''guernsey frock'', ''jersey frock'' (now usually simply guernsey and jersey). * The name "oil frock" has been used for a type of sailor's oilskin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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