smock frock

a loose overgarment of linen or cotton, as that worn by European farm laborers.Compare blouse(def 3).

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

anchorite

First recorded in 1790–1800

On weekdays he wore a smock-frock, which he called his surplice, with wonderful fancy stitches on the breast and back and sleeves.
The Parish Clerk (1907)|Peter Hampson Ditchfield
All the other idols have broken down; let us have faith in the smock-frock.
Smoke|Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich
He received them in his smock-frock, which he held out for more.
Brother Jacob|George Eliot
Wordsworth resembled a man coming into a drawing-room with muddy boots and a smock-frock.
Hours in a Library|Leslie Stephen

I passed through the town on foot, after having thrown off my smock-frock.
Hortense, Makers of History Series|John S. C. Abbott