smock-frocks

I daresay most of us remember certain modest postchaises, dragging us down interminable roads, through slush and mud, to little country towns with no visible population, except half-a-dozen men in smock-frocks, half-a-dozen women with umbrellas and pattens, and a washed-out dog or so shivering under the gables, to complete the desolate picture.

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

Rustics in snowy smock-frocks jerked their hats off smiling as we passed.

The Book of Snobs 2006

The remainder, stalwart ruddy men and boys, were dressed mainly in snow-white smock-frocks, embroidered upon the shoulders and breasts, in ornamental forms of hearts, diamonds, and zigzags.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

You never knowed a young feller keep his smock-frocks so clane; very honest too.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

A dense background of smock-frocks accumulated behind Mangel, and many eyes in it looked doubtfully at

Contributions to All the Year Round 2004

And now they begin to see, and the early life of the country-side comes out — a market cart or two; men in smock-frocks going to their work, pipe in mouth, a whiff of which is no bad smell this bright morning.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

It was nothing unusual for at least a score of the 'sons of the soil' to yoke themselves with ropes to the plough, having put on clean smock-frocks in honour of the day.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

The cottages were beautifully clean and the furniture solid, all the men wore smock-frocks and very thick boots with large nails that lasted a year: no such thing as a blue suit and yellow boots would have been tolerated then.

Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Lady Biddulph of Ledbury

They had on their long smock-frocks, broad-brimmed black hats, and leggings.

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

There was the bier borne on men's shoulders and a little company of mourners, the peasantry of the neighborhood, the men wearing smock-frocks.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various