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smicket Now dial.|ˈsmɪkɛt|
Also 7–8 smickit.
[app. dim. of smock n.]
A woman's smock or chemise; a small smock.
In use during the 19th cent in many dialects.
c1685Adv. to Maidens Lond. ii. in Bagford Ballads (1878) 935 Susan and Joan they will have a Top-Knot, although they have never a Smicket. c1690in Roxb. Ball. (1883) IV. 439 Stripping of all their Cloaths, their Gowns, their Petticoats, Shoes and Hose, Their fine white smickits then stripping. 1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. I. 219 Over this Smicket they wear a large smock. Ibid., Thus are their richest Smickets no better than a penitential Shirt. 1772Brydges Hom. Trav. (1797) I. 337 His dear Nelly, who had scarce An undarn'd smicket. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleom. 141 Misses..Who, drench'd, ne'er catch cold, though without change of smickets. 1820Combe Syntax, Consol. v. II. 199 The white smickets wave below, While..The petticoats appear'd as banners. 1897E. Phillpotts Lying Prophets 177, I found the whole fortune hid beneath her smickets. |