smock

UK /smɒk/ US /smɑk/
noun 3adj 2verb 2name 1

Definitions

noun

1

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.

2

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.

3

A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

adj

1

Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock

2

Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

verb

1

To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.

2

To apply smocking.

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