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• She looked pretty much as I'd imagined she would: loose cotton smock, overpermed hair, tobacco-stained teeth.2004, Linda Lael Miller, Never Look Back. From the entry overpermed
• The overdrift method in smock mills may be seen at Punnetts Town, and the underdrift at Shipley.1979, Martin Brunnarius, The windmills of Sussex, page 11. From the entry overdrift
• The laborers, too, in white smocks, broad and heavy, a thickset personnel, butchers’ men.1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 6, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Penguin, published 1977, page 279. From the entry thickset
• She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. From the entry launch
• She herself, I noticed, was dressed in her white land smock.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 29. From the entry land smock
• Women's underclothing consisted of a smock or chemise and hose.2013, Katherine L. French, “Genders and Material Culture”, in Judith M[acKenzie] Bennett, Ruth Mazo Karras, editors, The Oxford Handbook…. From the entry kirtle
• Next came a kirtle, a long garment originally with short or no sleeves, worn over the smock, chemise, and hose.2013, Katherine L. French, “Genders and Material Culture”, in Judith M[acKenzie] Bennett, Ruth Mazo Karras, editors, The Oxford Handbook…. From the entry kirtle
• “Merci buckets,” she said, holding the hem of her pink plastic smock out to her sides in a curtsy.2013, Dale E. Basye, Precocia: The Sixth Circle of Heck, →ISBN, page 286. From the entry merci buckets
• Raoul gave Paula away, and Breeze, his long de Vigny locks flowing over a white smock, acted as the bridesperson.1982, Joan Juliet Buck, “Epilogue”, in The Only Place to Be, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 452. From the entry bridesperson
• He was wearing his pretty blue Sunday smock, and it was so filthy in front that it was practically matted.1959, Sigrid Undset, “Thjodolf”, in Naomi Walfor, transl., Four Stories, Alfred A. Knopf; reprinted in Tiina Nunnally, transl., edited by…. From the entry underpant
• Almost certainly, the dark blue linen smock of the region and, by this date, dark woollen trousers, all woven in the family.2014, Gillian Tindall, Celestine: Voices From A French Village, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN. From the entry chausson
• There are lots of pauses and little detours, hitchings-up of their smocks, inspection of the soles of their feet, some rather overdone limping.1997, Lawrence Norfolk, The Pope's Rhinoceros. From the entry overdone
• It was a long, spacious place, where the polishers, in smocks of black serge, sat in double rows pumicating and grinding their pieces at little work-boards.1925, Émile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, Fruitfulness, page 8. From the entry pumicate
• We see this Gothic spirit of the love of fun glancing down from us from the beretted and smocked figure atop of the Vanderbilt chateau on Fifth Avenue.1925 December, Mr. and Mrs. G. Glen Gould, “Christmas Humor in Gothic Art”, in International Studio, volume LXXXII, number 343, New York…. From the entry beretted

Meaning of smock

1. noun A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
2. noun A blouse; a smock frock.
3. noun A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

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Questions about smock in a sentence

How do you use smock in a sentence?

Smock is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “She looked pretty much as I'd imagined she would: loose cotton smock, overpermed hair, tobacco-stained teeth.”

What is a short sentence with smock?

“Women's underclothing consisted of a smock or chemise and hose.”

What does smock mean?

Smock means a type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.