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Verb
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smocks, plural;
  1. Decorate (something) with smocking
    • - smocked dresses
Noun
  1. A loose dress or blouse, with the upper part closely gathered in smocking

  2. A loose garment worn over one's clothes to protect them
    • - an artist's smock
  3. A smocked linen overgarment worn by an agricultural worker

  1. duster: a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
  2. embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally; "The folk dancers wore smocked shirts"
  3. (smocking) embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches
  4. 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.
  5. 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. ...
  6. (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. ...
  7. 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
  8. (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.
  9. (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.
  10. (smocked) A decorative embroidery or shirring made by gathering cloth in regularly spaced round tucks.
  11. (Smocking) A tightly gathered area of fabric often elasticized and stitched decoratively
  12. (Smocking) A form of embroidery in which fabric is gathered and folded to provide increased stretch and comfort. Developed in the Middle Ages, smocking requires soft, lightweight, durable fabric, often batiste, voile or lawn, and is typically used for collars, cuffs and bodices. ...
  13. (Smocking) Honeycomb-patterned stitching used on gathered or tucked material for decoration. Many Christening gowns have a smocked bodice.
  14. (Smocking) The art of sewing thread over pleated folds of fabric. A variety of embroidery stitches may be used.
  15. 1. A man's loose overshirt. While in the 19th and 20th centuries it was common to control the fullness at the top of the body and sleeves by pleating the fabric finely and oversewing the pleats with the stitching called "smocking", this was not done in the 18th century (unless possibly, rarely, ...
  16. A garment supplied to employees to be worn during working hours.