Rochet

A white rochet with lace elements, to be worn over a cassock and under a chimere.
Thomas Schoen 1903, OCist

A rochet (/ˈrɒtʃət/)[1] is a white vestment generally worn by a Roman Catholic or Anglican bishop in choir dress. It is virtually unknown in Eastern Christianity.[2] The rochet in its Roman form is similar to a surplice, with narrower sleeves and a hem that comes below the knee, and both of which may be made of lace. The Anglican form is a descendant of traditional albs worn by deacons and priests, but with sleeves gathered at the wrists, and nearly as long as the underlying cassock.

The word stems from the Latin rochettum (from the Late Latin roccus, connected to the Old High German roch, roc and the Anglo-Saxon rocc; Dutch koorhemd, rochet, French rochet, German Rochett, Chorkleid, Italian rocchetto, Spanish roquete), which means an ecclesiastical vestment.[2]

  1. ^ "rochet". Oxford English Dictionary third edition. Oxford University Press. June 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Braun, Joseph; Phillips, Walter Alison (1911). "Rochet". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 431–432.