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Orchet vs Rochet - What's the difference?

orchet | rochet |

As nouns the difference between orchet and rochet

is that orchet is {{cx|UK|dialect|archaic|lang=en}} orchard while rochet is a white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church.

orchet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • orchard
    • (Thomas Hardy)

    rochet

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, iv:
  • *:Each priest adorn'd was in a surplice white, / The bishops don'd their albes and copes of state, // Above their rochets button'd fair before, / And mitres on their heads like crowns they wore.
  • *(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
  • *:They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet .
  • A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
  • :

    • Etymology 2

    Probably corrupted from (etyl) rouget.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fish, the red gurnard.
    • (Webster 1913) ----