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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1716, 1808-1843

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ROCKET, n. Also rockat; rocquet (Uls. 1904 E.D.D.). A loose upper garment, specif. a surplice of linen worn by a bishop, a rochet (s.Sc. 1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poet. Gl., rockat). Also in Eng. dial. Hist. or arch.Sc. 1716 West Country Intelligence (18–21 Feb.) 10:
The Bishops in their Rockets.
Sc. 1808 Scott Marmion vi. xi.:
With mitre sheen, and rocquet white.
Sc. 1828–43 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 326:
The palls, copes, rocquets, crosiers, censers, and church plate, were still more sumptuous.

[O.Sc. rocat, a bishop's surplice, 1450, O. North. Fr. roket, roquet, corresp. to Cent.Fr. rochet, Eng. rochet, id.]

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