Smock

Quick meaning: Smock is a noun meaning A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.

Meaning

A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.

More Meanings

1. A blouse; a smock frock.
2. A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
3. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
4. Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
5. (transitive) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
6. (transitive, sewing) To apply smocking.

Example Sentences

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.

c. 1960s (version), 14th century' (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale 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.

Word Forms

• smocks
• smocking
• smocked

Synonyms for smock

Depending on context, synonyms include duster, gaberdine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gaberdine, duster, frock, frocks, slip, smockfrock.

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