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Rochet vs Rotchet - What's the difference?

rochet | rotchet |

As nouns the difference between rochet and rotchet

is that 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 or rochet can be a fish, the red gurnard while rotchet is a fish, the european red gurnard (trigla pini ).

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) ----

    rotchet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fish, the European red gurnard (Trigla pini ).
    • (Webster 1913) ---- ==GuernĂ©siais==

    Noun

    (m)
  • rock