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Roquelaure

Roquelaure \Roq"ue*laure\ (?; 277), n. [F.; so called after Duc de Roquelaure, in the reign of Louis XIV.] A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century. [Written also roquelo.]

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roquelaure

n. (context now archaic historical English) A lined and trimmed cloak that reaches to the knees. (from 18th c.)

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Roquelaure

Roquelaure (RĂ²calaura in Gascon) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. A type of knee-length cloak, which was worn by men in the 18th and 19th Centuries of the Common Era, is named for the commune.

Usage examples of "roquelaure".

His serious enemies, Roquelaure and the others, would now have a freer hand in trying to get rid of him permanently.

The commander in passing remembered hearing someone say that Prime Minister Roquelaure, one of the Imperial officials who had been closest to the Empress, was now also one of the most likely candidates to replace her.

And Roquelaure would almost certainly represent Salutai when the Council of Eight met, as they must meet in the near future, to decide who would now occupy the Imperial Throne.

Whether intentionally or not, these armed people-dragoons, she thought Roquelaure called the little army she had heard he was so proud of-were confronting the two or three Templar guards, who were always posted in positions overlooking the docks on what really amounted to no more than ceremonial duty.

Let Roquelaure and his people have the damned control code, or whatever they want from you.

Emperor with some security-something I fear would be hard to manage as long as Prime Minister Roquelaure is still a force to be reckoned with.

If Roquelaure was in the least perturbed by the arrival of his enemy with an escort of berserkers, he was doing a marvelous job of concealing the fact.

Harivarman ordered the controller to send its companion machine scouting, to check whether Roquelaure had really come here unguarded and alone.

To that statement Prime Minister Roquelaure appeared to have no answer at all.

But now, facing Helen from an equal dais, stretching out an arm toward her as if to offer comradeship and support, was a metal version of the late Prime Minister Roquelaure, who had been martyred a year, ago in the latest heroic saving of the Fortress.

He wore a dark purple roquelaure riding-jacket, faced and lapelled with gold lace, through the open front of which shone a silver breastplate.

A young man, wearing the roquelaure and other similar appendages of a Swiss in foreign military service, a character to excite neither observation nor comment in that age, stood at her elbow, answering the questions that from time to time were addressed to him by the others, in a manner to show he was an intimate acquaintance, though there were signs about his travelling equipage to prove he was not exactly of their ordinary society.

Before he could reply, a gentleman habited in a riding dress, and a large red roquelaure, entered the room hastily, threw off his hat and cloak, and advanced at once with a somewhat rough air to the bedside.

Monsieur and the Duc de Roquelaure, Monsieur on his right and the Duc de Roquelaure on his left.

Madame de Roquelaure, whom they found in the bedroom in quite scanty attire.