smock
Collocations
4ADJ.
bright, white
VERB + SMOCK
paint
SMOCK + NOUN
foot
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
noun
A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
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.
A blouse; a smock frock.
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.
A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
adj
Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
verb
To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
To apply smocking.
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4c. 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 ba
WiktionaryAnd 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.
WiktionaryI made my orange scarf and white smock very bright, so people would notice them right away.
Tatoeba · #239309She wore one of her daddy's old shirts as a paint smock.
Tatoeba · #10619192