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Artist's garb
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smock
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Word definitions for smock in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Smock may refer to one of the following: Smock-frock , a coatlike outer garment, often worn to protect the clothes Smocking , an embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered, then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English smoc "garment worn by women, corresponding to the shirt on men," from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (cognates: Old Norse smokkr "a smock," but this is perhaps from Old English; Old High German smoccho "smock," a rare word; North Frisian smok "woman's ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smock \Smock\, a. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Smock mill , a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. Smock ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock 2 Hence, of or pertaining to a woman. n. 1 A woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise. 2 A blouse; a smock frock. 3 A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc. v 1 (context transitive English) ...
Usage examples of smock.
And suddenly anon this Damian Gan pullen up the smock, and in he throng.
The street they were following crossed a small square in which a wildly gesticulating ayatollah clad in a yellow tunic and green smock was haranguing a crowd pressed from wall to wall.
Awake in a moment she came to open the door in her smock, and without a light.
The rest, including Clocker, waited as an aging man in a white lab smock, heavy-rimmed eyeglasses and smooth pink cheeks, looking like a benevolent doctor in a mouthwash ad, stood up and faced the crowd.
I felt that all was lost, all the more as having to use both her hands she could not hold her smock and conceal two swelling spheres more seductive than the apples of the Hesperides.
She gestured toward the window, and I saw that it was filled with articles of worn clothing of every kind, jelabs, capotes, smocks, cymars, and so on.
Most of the Haluk I encountered were in the gracile, fully active state: slender, wasp-waisted beings with slate-blue skin, dressed in natty uniforms, fatigue coveralls, lab smocks, or the kind of casual alien clothing I had seen in the underground establishment of Cravat.
She quickly set to work with powder and powder-puff in hand, but her smock was short and loose at the top, and I repented, rather too late, that I had not given her time to dress.
Sheriff Hazen, wearing a surgical smock that was two sizes too big and a paper hat that made him feel ridiculous, stood and looked down at the gurney.
My wife very hystericky and forever in a smock and declareth she would be dead and married life a delusion, the which opinion I take small issue with having my hands full of business and Lasselle forever at my heels with our affair of the mine not to speak of H.
I am led across swirling parquetry, down ulterior corridors, past hidden visions smocked in light.
Spanish castle, long emplaced as mistress-muse of the smocked and popeyed iconeer .
Of the smock Vanning had placed within the metal compartment there was no trace.
To her he was like the artist who smears himself and his smock with paint while in his studio, but appears at dinner in spotless linen without even a whiff of benzine about him to suggest his occupation.
In blue-gray smocks under blue-gray caps, with mouse-gray earmuffs and black woolen mufflers, they posed parentless and shivering until Amsel dismissed them with little bags of candy.