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smock

[ smok ]

noun

  1. a loose, lightweight overgarment worn to protect the clothing while working.


verb (used with object)

  1. to clothe in a smock.
  2. to draw (a fabric) by needlework into a honeycomb pattern with diamond-shaped recesses.

smock

/ smɒk /

noun

  1. any loose protective garment, worn by artists, laboratory technicians, etc
  2. a woman's loose blouse-like garment, reaching to below the waist, worn over slacks, etc
  3. Also calledsmock frock a loose protective overgarment decorated with smocking, worn formerly esp by farm workers
  4. archaic.
    a woman's loose undergarment, worn from the 16th to the 18th centuries


verb

  1. to ornament (a garment) with smocking

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Derived Forms

  • ˈsmockˌlike, adjective

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Other Words From

  • smocklike adjective
  • un·smocked adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of smock1

before 1000; Middle English (noun), Old English smocc; originally name for a garment with a hole for the head; compare Old Norse smjūga to put on (a garment) over the head

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Word History and Origins

Origin of smock1

Old English smocc; related to Old High German smocco, Old Norse smokkr blouse, Middle High German gesmuc decoration

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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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S.M.M.smock frock