smock

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The poorest peasant in his smock was a more courteous and valiant gentleman than was a belted knight beyond the sea There is a pleasing story which relates how Robert Bruce, marching with his army in the mountains of Ireland, heard a woman crying during one of the halts.

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  1. noun A loose coatlike outer garment, often worn to protect the clothes while working.
  2. transitive verb To clothe in a smock.
  3. transitive verb To decorate (fabric) with smocking.

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  • The comprehensive traces of several meals adorning the front of his smock were as much an affront to the nose as to the eye. —  FSF,August2005
  • The poorest peasant in his smock was a more courteous and valiant gentleman than was a belted knight beyond the sea There is a pleasing story which relates how Robert Bruce, marching with his army in the mountains of Ireland, heard a woman crying during one of the halts. —  The Book-Hunter at Home
  • It contained a leaf of lady's-smock, a mussel-shell, and two fish-bones. —  The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country
  • An hour later, just as the smock was finished and the boys were gone to get tea ready, the shepherd entered at the gate carrying a quantity of wheatears threaded on crow-quills. —  The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.
  • Sure I'll come To-night You betcha, little pardner, I'll be there I'm dressed silly--in bare feet and sandals and what they call a smock. —  The Big-Town Round-Up
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  1. Middle English, woman's undergarment, from Old English smoc.

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  1. from Middle English smok, smoc, smock, from Anglo-Saxon smoc = Icelandic smokkr, a smock, = Old High German smoccho, a smock; cf. Old Swedish smog, a round hole for the head; Icelandic smeygja = Danish smöge, slip off one's neck; from the verb, Anglo-Saxon smeógan, smūgan (past participle smogen), creep into (cf. English dial. smook, draw on, as a glove or stocking), = Icelandic smjūga, creep through a hole, put on a garment, = Middle High German smiegen, cling or creep into, German schmiegen, cling to, bend, etc. Cf. smug, smuggle. Hence smicket.
  2. from smock, n.
 

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