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ˈrokelay Sc. Now Hist.
Also rocklay.
[ad. F. roquelaire, var. of roquelaure.]
A short cloak worn by women in the eighteenth century.
c1805Macneill Poems (1844) 97 He has coft me a rocklay o' blue. 1814Scott Wav. xi, Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid. 1821― Pirate vii, The best chance of getting a new rokelay and owerlay. 1881Blackw. Mag. Apr. 526 Old women in white mutches and scarlet rokelays. |