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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smock
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
white
▪ This archer wears a white smock over a grey uniform with distinguishing red ribbons and plume.
▪ In white smocks and turbans they stood with their red arms in a sink.
▪ So said the hospital orderly in his stark white smock.
■ VERB
wear
▪ Alice was standing working at the table, wearing her long fawn smock.
▪ Artists wear berets and smocks and cut their ears off.
▪ Andrea was wearing a cheesecloth smock and agonizing over whether to eat a salt and vinegar crisp.
▪ This archer wears a white smock over a grey uniform with distinguishing red ribbons and plume.
▪ She wore a flowered smock, and her spectacles hung round her neck on a cord.
▪ The driver and guard wore rustic smocks in keeping. 4.
▪ My own solution is to wear a one-piece smock that fits over my head.
▪ Most of them wore camouflaged smocks and jump boots.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an artist's smock
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Andrea was wearing a cheesecloth smock and agonizing over whether to eat a salt and vinegar crisp.
▪ Below her waist, the fabric of her smock filled with the black clots of her hemorrhage.
▪ Dress: painting smock to keep clothes clean.
▪ He gave Margarett one of his monogrammed silk shirts to use as a smock.
▪ Inside, workers clad in blue smocks can turn out 6, 000 handguns a day.
▪ Pleats create a weird-looking smock effect, appealing to the adventurous with a touch of fashion victim in them.
▪ She learned to sew and made maternity smocks he tried to admire.
▪ This archer wears a white smock over a grey uniform with distinguishing red ribbons and plume.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smock

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 race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock.

Smock

Smock \Smock\, v. t. To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
--Tennyson.

Smock

Smock \Smock\ (sm[o^]k), n. [AS. smocc; akin to OHG. smocho, Icel. smokkr, and from the root of AS. sm[=u]gan to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close, MHG. smiegen, Icel. smj[=u]ga to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to glide. Cf. Smug, Smuggle.]

  1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.

    In her smock, with head and foot all bare.
    --Chaucer.

  2. A blouse; a smoock frock.
    --Carlyle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
smock

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 shift," but this, too, perhaps from English).\n

\nKlein's sources, Barnhart and the OED see this as connected to a group of Germanic sm- words having to do with creeping or pressing close, such as Old Norse smjuga "to creep (through an opening), to put on (a garment)," smuga "narrow cleft to creep through; small hole;" Old Swedish smog "a round hole for the head;" Old English smugan, smeogan "to creep," smygel "a burrow." Compare also German schmiegen "to cling to, press close, nestle;" and Schmuck "jewelry, adornments," from schmucken "to adorn," literally "to dress up."\n

\nWatkins, however, traces it to a possible Germanic base *(s)muk- "wetness," figuratively "slipperiness," from PIE root*meug- "slimy, slippery" (see mucus). Either way, the original notion, then, seems generally to have been "garment one creeps or slips into," by the same pattern that produced sleeve and slip (n.2).\n

\nNow replaced by euphemistic shift (n.2); smock was the common word down to 18c., and was emblematic of womanhood generally, as in verb smock "to render (a man) effeminate or womanish" (1610s); smocker "man who consorts with women" (18c.); smock-face "person having a pale, effeminate face" (c.1600). A smock-race (1707) was an old country pastime, a foot-race for women and girls with a smock as a prize. Modern meaning "woman's or child's loose dress or blouse" is from 1907; sense of "loose garment worn by artists over other clothes" is from 1938.

Wiktionary
smock
  1. 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

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Tennyson. 2 (context transitive English) To apply smocking.

WordNet
smock
  1. n. a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles [syn: duster, gaberdine, gabardine, dust coat]

  2. v. embellish by sewing in lines crossing each other diagonally; "The folk dancers wore smocked shirts"

Wikipedia
Smock

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
  • Chemise, a woman's undergarment
  • A smock mill, a windmill with a wooden tower, resembling the garment in appearance
  • A Ghanaian smock, a shirt worn in Ghana

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.