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smocking

[ smok-ing ]

noun

  1. smocked needlework.
  2. embroidery stitches used to hold gathered cloth in even folds.


smocking

/ ˈsmɒkɪŋ /

noun

  1. ornamental needlework used to gather and stitch material in a honeycomb pattern so that the part below the gathers hangs in even folds
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of smocking1

First recorded in 1885–90; smock + -ing 1
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Example Sentences

Beatrice was wearing her polished cotton, very girlish with the smocking across the bodice.

Even down to the shape of this smocking and the crystal application and then the dégradé within the cape.

“Of course it turned out there was neither a mushroom cloud nor a smoking gun, or as Trump has repeatedly called it, a ‘smocking gun’,” Meyers said.

And the clothes he would make for her—pink crêpe de Chine frocks with dainty smocking at the yoke and sleeves.

The president did, however, score one recent success, when his neologism “smocking” proved popular.

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