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Smock-frock
A smock-frock or smock is an outer garment traditionally worn by rural workers, especially shepherds and waggoners. The traditional smock-frock is made of heavy linen or wool and varies from thigh-length to mid-calf length.
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smock-frock
ˈsmock-frock, n. [smock n.] 1. A loose-fitting garment of coarse linen or the like, worn by farm-labourers over or instead of a coat and usually reaching to mid-leg or lower.a 1800 Pegge Suppl. Grose, Smock-frock, a coarse linen shirt worn over the coat by waggoners, &c., called in the South a Gaber...
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Smocking
Smocking was practical for garments to be both form fitting and flexible, hence its name derives from smock — an agricultural labourer's work shirt. See also
Smock-frock
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The Reader's Digest Association, Complete Guide to Embroidery Stitches, Pleasantville, New York: Marabout
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smock
▪ I. smock, n. (smɒk) Forms: 1, 3 smoc, 3–5 smok, 4– smock, 5–6 smokk; 4–8 smocke, 5–6 smokke; 5–7 smoke, 6 smoake. [OE. smoc, = ON. smokkr (once, and perh. from OE.), OHG. smoccho (once); cf. also NFris. smok woman's shift (Helgoland, perh. from E.), neck-ruff (Sylt). The stem is probably related t...
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James H. Stoddart
acting in Britain (starting as a youth), he came to Wallack's Theatre in New York in 1854 -- his first appearance was in a small role in A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock.
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smocking
ˈsmocking, vbl. n. [f. smock v. 4.] The action of gathering and working a garment after the fashion of a smock-frock; the ornamental pattern so formed.1888 Bow Bells 9 Mar., This was..shaped by means of the ‘honeycombing’ or ‘smocking’. 1890 Daily News 27 Nov. 2/4 Smocking is still largely used for ...
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Frock
of heavy linen with a broad flat collar, now usually called a smock-frock. As such, a frock remains a dense knitted overgarment worn by sailors and fishermen, as guernsey frock, jersey frock (now usually simply guernsey and jersey
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frock
▪ I. frock, n. (frɒk) Forms: 4–5 frokke, 5 frogge, 4–6 frok(e, Sc. or north. frog, 6–7 frocke, 6– frock. [a. F. froc (recorded from 12th c.); of uncertain origin. Cf. Pr. floc frock, med.L. froccus, floccus. Some scholars regard the fl- forms as the original, and identify the word with L. floccus, O...
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Christophe Thivrier
Ghesquière commented that, "... a clean blue smock has every right to be worn in the Assembly, as does a frock, because if clothes do not make the man, neither does the frock make the legislator."
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gipe
▪ I. † gipe Obs. rare—1. In 4–5 gype. [a. OF. gipe, gippe, var. jupe, etc.: see jupe, jupon.] A tunic, smock-frock, cassock. In the quot. the allusion is app. to the folds or gathers of the tunic.c 1400 Rom. Rose 7262 High shoes knopped with dagges, That frouncen lyke a quaile pype, Or botes rivelyn...
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Guernsey (clothing)
The term can also refer to a similarly shaped garment made of woven cloth, also called a Guernsey shirt or smock. There are a number of different names for the same garments, for instance Guernsey frock, Guernsey shirt, smock-frock, or fisherman’s frock.
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samarra
‖ samarra1 Hist. (səˈmærə) Also 8 samarre. [med.L.: see simar.] A kind of cassock, painted with flames, etc., worn on the way to execution by persons condemned by the Inquisition to be burnt.1731 Chandler tr. Limborch's Hist. Inquis. II. iv. xli. 295 They [prisoners designed for the fire] are..cloat...
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See also
Camisole
Chemise
Smock-frock
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Women's clothing
Tops (clothing)
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Pinafore
The pinafore differs from a smock in that it does not have sleeves and there is no back to the bodice. See also
Apron
Overalls
Smock-frock
Tabard
Pinaforing
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Aprons
History of clothing (Western fashion)
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Beatrice Chase
In her last book The Dartmoor Window Forty years On (1948) she claimed to have started the tradition of Uncle Tom Cobley appearing in a smock-frock at
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