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How to pronounce smock in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dust coat, duster, gabardine, gaberdine
Type of coverall
Type Words
Type of adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament
Derivation smocking


The folk dancers wore smocked shirts.

Examples of smock

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Pinkston tightens the screws with the Allen wrenches in the pocket of his smock.
From the stltoday.com
A chemise, shift, or smock was usually sewn at home, by the women of a household.
From the en.wikipedia.org
At the hair salon for a makeover, Tim insists Marty not even wear a pink smock.
From the entertainment.time.com
As LeNeave speaks, a woman in a purple smock is getting her new hairdo touched up.
From the washingtonpost.com
Smock has played 13 holes, while Risdon completed 12 holes of the first round.
From the sacbee.com
Klimt himself appears in various photographs, wearing a smock and a pointed beard.
From the economist.com
For the tour, the Foster Farms folks dressed me in a smock, hair net and hard hat.
From the kentucky.com
Admittedly, Dmitry Bulkin takes off his Pierrot smock to perform on the pole.
From the nytimes.com
Look, too, at the white lace collar spilling over the smock of rose-coloured velvet.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Duster: a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
  • Embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally; "The folk dancers wore smocked shirts"
  • (smocking) embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches
  • A smock-frock or smock is an outer garment traditionally worn by rural workers, especially shepherds and waggoners, in parts of England and Wales from the early eighteenth century. Today, the word smock refers to a loose overgarment worn to protect one's clothing, for instance by a painter.
  • Smocking is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch. Before elastic, smocking was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable. ...
  • (Smocking (knitting)) In knitting, a gather is a generic term for several methods that draw stitches closer together laterally, i.e., within a row of knitting. ...
  • A woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise; A blouse; A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc; To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Alfred Tennyson; To apply smocking; Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; Hence, of or pertaining to a woman
  • (Smocked) Smocking is a technique where fabric has been gathered over an area to make it stretchy. Smocked clothing items (usually dresses or blouses) use smocking as a decorative detail.
  • (Smocked) An embroidered thread sewn on top gathered folds of fabric. Most frequently smocking is used on the bodice to enhance the fit by visually whittling the waist.