smocks

Noun

smock (plural smocks)

1. A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
   • c. 1960s (version), 14th century' (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
     Before the folk herself stripped she,
     And in her smock, with foot and head all bare,
     Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
2. A blouse; a smock frock.
   • And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
3. A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

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