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roquelauren.Origin: Apparently partly a borrowing from French. Apparently partly from a proper name. Etymons: French roquelaure, roclose, roclore; proper name Roquelaure, Roquelaire. Etymology: Apparently < French roquelaure (a1713 or earlier; in regional use also †roclose, †roclore) and its etymon, the name of Antoine-Gaston, Duc de Roquelaure (also, especially in English linguistic contexts in the 18th cent., de Roquelaire; 1656–1738), Marshal of France. Compare slightly earlier rokelay n.Examples of this word can be difficult to distinguish from those of rokelay n., which is recorded (as the name of a similar garment worn by women) slightly earlier than both the present word and French roquelaure (see above). Division of material between the two entries has therefore been made according to the gender of the (intended) wearer, with examples denoting men's garments given here and examples denoting women's garments given at rokelay n. It has not been possible to identify the original contexts of the forms rotkello and rochelo in the following quotation discussing historical spellings for names of women's cloaks of this type as well as men's; thus these forms may belong either here or at rokelay n.:1903 A. M. Earle Two Cent. Costume Amer. i. ix. 265 Rocklow, rockolet, roquelo, rochelo, roquello, and even rotkello have I found. Now archaic and historical. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape > types of > other α. 1715 J. Harris 26 There is also a Piece, which is a short Abridgement or Compendium of a Cloak, which is dedicated to the Duke of Roquelaure.] 1716 J. Gay i. 4 Within the Roquelaure's Clasp thy Hands are pent. 1762 L. Sterne VI. vi. 22 I have a project..of wrapping myself up warm in my roquelaure, and paying a visit to this poor gentleman. 1791 A. Radcliffe II. xi. 212 Presently he saw a gentleman, wrapped up in a roquelaure, alight and enter the inn. 1806 M. Noble III. 490 The roquelaure cloak..displaced the surtout. 1836 F. Marryat III. xvi. 172 I went out and purchased a roquelaure, which enveloped my whole person. 1857 A. Trollope III. ii. 23 ‘Oh Miss Thorne, look here!’ said she,..‘do look at my roquelaure? It's clean spoilt, and for ever.’ 1901 G. N. Boothby i I donned my roquelaure, and descended to the street. 1984 J. Nunn 84 The knee-length roquelaure (or roculo) cloak, shaped to the neck with a single or double cape collar and fastened down the front..had a back vent for convenience when riding. 1990 I. M. Banks (1992) i. 47 Astil Tremerst Keiver selected a roquelaure from a tall chiffonier, closed the cabinet's door and admired himself in the mirror. β. 1719 C. Morris 8 Nov. (1934) 73 I first wore my Rockloe to Church.1730 Weekly News-let. (Boston) in A. M. Earle (1968) i. ix. 264 [A citizen advertises that he has lost his] Blue Cloak or Roculo with brass buttons.1739 J. Belcher Let. in (1894) 6th Ser. VII. 250 You say nothing, brother, of the rocquelo I wrote for, which I very much want, because I have none fit to wear this winter.1754 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.1796 F. Burney V. ix. iv. 84 She then saw..a figure wrapt round in a dark blue roquelo.1812 F. Burney (1975) VI. 704 I have often seen him..muffled up in a plain brown rocolo.1828 W. Carr (ed. 2) Roccillo, a cloak.1860 201 Rock a Low, an overcoat.1865 B. Brierley II. 254 [Lancs.] Get my owd rockilo (roquelaure) on, an' be gooin'.1884 E. Yates I. 47 Some old gentlemen wore cloaks, too, in my youth [1836–47],..one kind..[being] known to the London public as a ‘rockelow’.1910 C. K. Bolton ix. 174 The father was to have..his ‘Rocquelo’ or roquelaure, a loose coat to be thrown over the shoulders.γ. 1788 F. Grose (ed. 2) Wrap Rascal, a red cloak, also called a roquelaire.1801 S. T. Coleridge (1956) II. 778 I was armed cap-a-pie, in a compleat Panoply, namely, in a huge, most huge, Roquelaire.1825 W. Hone (1826) I. 1197 A sort of uniform coat and a plaid rocquelaire.1846 E. A. Poe in Nov. 216/2 Drawing a roquelaire closely about my person.1884 W. Besant III. xxxix. 227 He carried a roquelaire, and wore a short riding wig, in place of his own full-bottomed perruque, and great boots.1901 E. D. Gillespie xiii. 189 I parted with much sorrow from my friends the Miss Horners, and with regret from the ‘roquelaire’ they had loaned me, which had once belonged to Lord Holland.This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1716 |