rochet1 (rochet)

[Also dial, rocket; rock this case frequently a white linen outer garment). A Roket full rent & Ragget aboue, Cast ouer his corse. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 13525. A womman wel more fetys is In roket than in cote, ywis. Rom. of the Rose, 1. 1242. Superior vest is mulierum, Anglice a rochet . MS . Bibl . Reg ., 12 B. i. f. 12. ( Hall i well .) 2. Eccles., a close-fitting vestment of linen or lawn, worn by bishops and some others. It reaches to the knees or lower, and has close sleeves extending to the wrists, or is sleevele . The rochet is a variety of the alb or surplice, the latter differing from both alb and rochet by the fullne of its sleeves. In the Roman Catholic Church the rochet is worn by bishops and abbots, usually under a manteletta, and, as a choir vestment, by some canons. In the Anglican Church the rochet is worn under the chimere-these vestments constituting the distinctive episcopal habit as ordinarily worn in church and in Parliament and Convocation. The lawn sleeves are now made very full, and attached to the chi mere, not to the rochet. And an Arm men seyn is ther Of seint Thomas the holy Marter,... And a Rochet that is good, Al be-spreint with his blod. Stacions of Rome (ed. Furnivall), 1. 501. The Elected Bishop, vested with his Rochet , shall be preunto the Presiding Bishop. sented Book of Common Prayer [American], Consecration of [Bishops. 3t. Hence, a bishop: also used attributively. They would strain us out a certain figurative prelate, by wringing the collective allegory of those seven angels into seven single rochets. Milton, Church-Government, i. 5. 4. A mantelet worn by the peers of England during ceremonies. rochet2 (roch'et), n. [ Drayton. Like a raw rochet! B. Jonson , Volpone, iii. 6. Rochets, whitings, or such common fish. W. Browne. A tank lined