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Rok(k)at, -et, Rochet(t, n. Also: roc(k)-, rokc-; rotch- and -it. [ME and e.m.E. roket (c1290) a smock, rocket, rochet (Wyclif) in this sense, OF roket, ro(c)quet (OED), rochet (c1170 in Larousse), med. L. roquetum, rochetum.] A white vestment worn by a bishop or abbot.(a) c1450-2 Howlat 172 (A).
Swannis … In quhyte rocatis [B. rokcattis] arrayd c1500-c1512 Dunb. (O.U.P.) 132/33.
Sum ramyis ane rokkat fra the roy 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 656.
I am (said he) one channoun regulare, … My quhyte rocket my clene lyfe doith declare 1540 Id. Sat. 2751 (Ch.).
Our bishops with thair lustie rokats quhyte 1571 Sempill Sat. P. xxviii 52.
Quhill I was cowit, and cled vp lyke ane fule, In stemming rokket 1570-3 Bann. Trans. 52.
No more … then a good bischop neidis to mak scruple of conscience to mak a sermond without his rocket, myter and ring 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 104.
The bischopis of Dunkell [and] Dunblane with thair rockattis and huidis a1578 Pitsc. I 283/21.
Bischope James Bettone … was taine out behind the hie allter and his rokit revin off him a1649 Drummond II 246.
A bishopes rocket(b) 1558 Knox IV 439.
His rochet and miter must stand for authoritie c1650 Spalding I 36.
Rotchetis ?c1675 J. Gordon Hist. II 132.
He [sc. David Lindsay, bishop of Edinburgh] had putt on the rochett and other masse lycke apperall at divyne service
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