Meaning & use
frock
A dress, especially one worn by a woman or girl (chiefly British and somewhat old-fashioned).
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Grandmother kept her wedding frock carefully folded in tissue paper for decades.
The little girl twirled happily in her new party frock that evening.
A note on using this word
Frock now sounds slightly dated or quaint in everyday British English, and it is rarely used in American English at all.
Words with a similar meaning
dressgown
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