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plural smocks
A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip. quotations examples
Before the folk herself stripped she, / And in her smock, with foot and head all bare, / Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
c. 1960s' (version), 14th century (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
A blouse; a smock frock. quotations examples
And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.
1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc. examples
not comparable
Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock examples
Hence, of or pertaining to a woman. examples
third-person singular simple present smocks, present participle smocking, simple past and past participle smocked
(transitive) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. examples
(transitive, sewing) To apply smocking. examples