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smock-face Now rare.
[f. smock n.]
A pale and smooth or effeminate face; a person having a face of this description.
1605Chapman All Fools v. i, [Fortune gives] Some wealth without wit, some nor wit nor wealth, But good smocke-faces. 1696Vanbrugh Relapse 1st Prol., Perhaps there's not a smock-face here to-day But's bold as Cæsar to attack—a play. 1786J. A. D. Pogonologia 51 You pretty fellows of the present day,..and all you with smock-faces and weak nerves. 1820W. Tooke Lucian I. 398 Who does that smock-face belong to there? 1846Landor Imag. Conv. I. 354 Who could have expected it from that smock-face! 1874Slang Dict. 298 Smock-face, a white delicate face,—a face without whiskers. |