Roquelaure

A cloak; so called from the Duke de Roquelaure. (George II.)

“‘Your honour’s roquelaure,ʹ replied the corporal, ‘has not once been had on since the night before your honour received your wound.ʹ”—Sterne: Tristram Shandy; Story of Le Fevre.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.