ppl. a. [f. FLOCK v.2 and sb.2 + -ED.] a. Covered or thickened with flock. † b. Formed into woolly looking masses (obs.). † c. Adorned with a tuft (Fr. † floqué) (obs.). d. Flocked enamel (see quot. 1884).
1607. R. C[arew], trans. H. Estienne’s World of Wonders, 125. Merchants, who not content (by their subtill maner of measuring formerly spoken of) to get vpon the measure, haue deuised a way to falsify clothes in regard of the matter, putting in flocks in steed of woll: so that wheras chapmen think they haue their cloth of like woll within, as it apeareth to be without; they find by experience (after they haue worn it but a litle) that they bought plain flocked cloth.
1626. A. Speed, Adam out of E., i. (1659), 9. French furze … will grow very spacious and to great flockt bodies in few years.
1660. F. Brooke, trans. Le Blanc’s Trav., I. xiii. 38. The Prince … weares a woolen cap, a red turban flock’t with white [F. floqué de blanc], from whence he is called Sophy, which signifies a red-flock’t cap.
1884. Knight, Dict. Mech., 348/2. Flocked Enamel. (Glass.) Enamel ornamentation on glass whose surface has been previously dulled by grinding, or acid.
