What is "frocks"

Usage examples of "frocks".

From every enjoyment I was, of course, excluded: my share of the gaiety consisted in witnessing the daily apparelling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringletted.

Aunt Alvirah was as troubled at first about Ruth's lack of frocks as the girl was herself.

For Ruth had quite decided, from what Aunt Alvirah said, that the girl who had formerly worn the frocks in question was no longer upon earth.

But Aunt Alvirah had warned her that the frocks were to remain a mystery by the special request of the donor, and she could not ask the good old doctor anything about them.

So Ruth took up her school duties quite as usual, wearing one of the pretty frocks in which, however, she could no longer take such pride and delight.

And she could see peo­ple and many lights and hear music and view for herself the lovely laces and frocks and frills that the famous Cap­tain Butler had run through the blockade on his last trip.

She looked hungrily at the frocks floating by, butter-yel­low watered silks with garlands of rosebuds.

And you put your arms about their waists and suffered them to do the same to you, no matter how much you disliked it You admired their frocks or their babies indiscriminately and teased about beaux and complimented husbands and giggled modestly and denied that you had any charms at all com­pared with theirs.

She did not care for the eager competition furnished by the sixteen-year-olds whose fresh cheeks and bright smiles made one forget their twice-turned frocks and patched shoes.

So I came up here to get me some frocks made and then I’m going over to Charleston to visit my aunt.

If it’s to buy you pretty frocks or a carriage, take it with my blessing.

While she had been away with him, Rhett had let her wear any dress she chose and, since that time, she had gone into tantrums when Mammy tried to dress her in dimity frocks and pinafores instead of blue taffeta and lace collars.

My second daughter, Augusta, went with her mama to visit the school, and on her return she exclaimed: 'Oh, dear papa, how quiet and plain all the girls at Lowood look, with their hair combed behind their ears, and their long pinafores, and those little holland pockets outside their frocks -- they are almost like poor people's children!

They all wore identical garments: shapeless, frazzle-hemmed frocks of colorless homespun, apparently with nothing underneath, and none of them had shoes.

They were hastily fumbling to do up the buttons of their frocks, and were misbuttoning most of them.