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smock
[ smok ]
noun
- a loose, lightweight overgarment worn to protect the clothing while working.
verb (used with object)
- to clothe in a smock.
- to draw (a fabric) by needlework into a honeycomb pattern with diamond-shaped recesses.
smock
/ smɒk /
noun
- any loose protective garment, worn by artists, laboratory technicians, etc
- a woman's loose blouse-like garment, reaching to below the waist, worn over slacks, etc
- Also calledsmock frock a loose protective overgarment decorated with smocking, worn formerly esp by farm workers
- archaic.a woman's loose undergarment, worn from the 16th to the 18th centuries
verb
- to ornament (a garment) with smocking
Derived Forms
- ˈsmockˌlike, adjective
Other Words From
- smocklike adjective
- un·smocked adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of smock1
Word History and Origins
Origin of smock1
Example Sentences
He spent three days in a rubber room wearing a plastic smock before returning.
In several she is wearing a pink smock and Prince William in rather dowdy blue swim trunks.
His signature blue jacket is a Parisian street sweeper's smock purchased on his semi-annual trips to Paris.
Merritt Wever is adorable and believable as Zoey, a nervous first-year nursing student so callow she has bunnies on her smock.
The third was a mournful-eyed Schree, clad in an ornamented smock-like garment, from which his thin limbs thrust grotesquely.
Michael himself, not so ruddy, nor so determined, in white smock and blue stockings.
A smock covered her into shapelessness, and her spectacular hair was bound up in a kerchief, but she still looked good.
Why do Michael and the gardeners wear smock frocks and blue stockings?
And how had that little torn smock ever been drawn over those gigantic shoulders!
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