rochet

noun /ˈɹɒtʃɪt/

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.

   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.

2. A frock or outer garment worn in the 13th and 14th centuries.

   archaic, historical

Where it comes from

From Middle English roket, rochet, from Anglo-Norman rochet, Middle French rochet, from Frankish (cf. Old English rocc (“overgarment”)).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry rochet (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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