Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: smock
IPA transcription: [sm'ɑk]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: duster, gaberdine, gabardine, smock, dust_coat
    Meaning: a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: smock
    Meaning: embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally; "The folk dancers wore smocked shirts"
Usage examples
  • He was not an old man, somewhere about fifty, and he had on a gray peasant's smock.
  • The man who marries her will have to find the money for the smock she stands up in."
  • But I was trembling all over, and still kept tight hold of his smock frock, and I must have been quite pale.
  • Florence looked all about the room, but could see nothing save Roger's clean smock frock which hung against the door.
  • When the great company were fully met together, the King led forth his daughter before them; and all might see that she was arrayed in nothing but her smock.
  • And when the maiden appeared, clad in her white smock, flames of fire curled about her, and the Romans brought some torches, and some straw, and some shavings, and fires were kindled in Rome again.