roquelaure
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From French roquelaure, from the name of Antoine Gaston de Roquelaure.
Noun edit
roquelaure (plural roquelaures)
- (now archaic, historical) A lined and trimmed cloak that reaches to the knees, often with bright-coloured lining and trimmed with fur. [from 18th c.]
- 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:
- Putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 97:
- “Oh Miss Thorne, look here!” said she, as soon as she found herself in the drawing-room, ”do look at my roquelaure! It's clean spoilt, and for ever."
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
roquelaure f (plural roquelaures)
Further reading edit
- “roquelaure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.