[
UK
/smˈɒk/
]
[ US /ˈsmɑk/ ]
[ US /ˈsmɑk/ ]
VERB
-
embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally
The folk dancers wore smocked shirts
NOUN
- a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
How To Use smock In A Sentence
- They emerge, as they have again this year, as the flower buds of garlic mustard and of lady's smock appear. Times, Sunday Times
- Further down, below the moor, the laneside verge was bright with lady's-smock, the so-called cuckooflower that blooms when the first cuckoo calls. Country Diary: North Derbyshire
- The stream cut clean through my smock, apron, coveralls, and my jeans.
- A loose, launderable sweater or sweatshirt that lets you move but can go under your smock is another useful item to have in your cleaning closet. HOME COMFORTS
- Mr Blair was wearing a black and blue T-shirt, jeans and training shoes, while his wife was dressed for the heat in multi-coloured patterned trousers, a white smock and trainers.
- For dressier occasions there were jewelled lace-up boots and velvet smocks. Times, Sunday Times
- Plants are greater stitchwort, bluebell, devils bit scabious, Himalayan balsam, ragged robin, marsh marigold, quaking grass and lady's smock.
- Dressed in short smocks and wide hats, they move in unison through the hay, practicing labor as ballet. Crosscut
- The interior is a delight, a beamed, strawed, trestle-tabled, dimly lit farmhouse attended to by waiters in sashed smocks.
- The voice and face of his dearest friend and advisor vanished, and Roy proceeded to remove his paint-bedaubed smock and brush his hair, so as to present a somewhat better appearance when the professor arrived. "The Golden Girl of Munan" by Harl Vincent, part 1