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roquelaure Now Hist.|ˈrɒkəlɔə(r)|
Also α. 8 rocquelaure. β. 8 roccelo (9 roccillo), rocolo, roquelo (9 roquello); 9 dial. rockalow, -elow, rockilo. γ. 9 ro(c)quelaire (cf. rokelay).
[a. F. roquelaure, named after the Duke of Roquelaure (1656–1738). With the β-forms cf. Sp. roclo.]
A cloak reaching to the knee worn by men during the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth.
α1716Gay Trivia i. 51 Within the Roquelaure's Clasp thy Hands are pent. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy vi. vi, I have a project..of wrapping myself up warm in my roquelaure, and paying a visit to this poor gentleman. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest (1820) II. 212 Presently he saw a gentleman, wrapped up in a roquelaure, alight and enter the inn. 1836Marryat Japhet lxx, I went out and purchased a roquelaure, which enveloped my whole person. 1859All Year Round No. 18. 432 Owens..had constantly worn a large cloak, or roquelaure (as the article was called at that time), of a dark blue colour. 1901G. Boothby My Indian Queen i, I donned my roquelaure, and descended to the street.
attrib.1806Noble Contn. Granger III. 490 The roquelaure cloak..displaced the surtout.
β1754Connoisseur No. 33. 136 Close by the parlour door there hung a pair of stag's horns, over which there was laid across a red Roccelo and an amber-headed cane. 1796F. Burney Camilla ix. iii. She then saw..a figure wrapt round in a dark blue roquelo. 1812― Diary (1846) VI. 353, I have often seen him..muffled up in a plain brown rocolo. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Roccillo, a cloak. 1860Slang Dict. 201 Rock a Low, an overcoat. 1884E. Yates Recoll. I. 47 Some old gentlemen wore cloaks, too, in my youth [1836–47],..one kind..[being] known to the London public as a ‘rockelow’.
γ1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 1197 A sort of uniform coat and a plaid rocquelaire. a1849Poe Cask of Amontillado 273 Drawing a roquelaire closely about my person. |