Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a smock.

Etymologies

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smock +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The 61-year-old film director and artist is dressed in a crisp white shirt, black trousers and a long black smocklike coat that gives him the air of a mad scientist.

    Ways of Seeing 2007

  • His black hair was overlong and his clothes were so mismatched that it looked deliberate: too short jeans, a shabby, overlarge coat that might have belonged to a grown man, an odd smocklike shirt.

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • a shabby, overlarge coat that might have belonged to a grown man, an odd smocklike shirt.

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • Her two-tone hair stuck straight up on end, as if she’d just been through a wind tunnel; she liked to wear white smocklike shirts and colorful, mismatched costume jewelry that she sold at the shop.

    Tell us we’re home Martina Budhos 2010

  • Her two-tone hair stuck straight up on end, as if she’d just been through a wind tunnel; she liked to wear white smocklike shirts and colorful, mismatched costume jewelry that she sold at the shop.

    Tell us we’re home Martina Budhos 2010

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