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ˈsmock-faced, a. Now rare.
[Cf. prec.]
Having a pale smooth face; effeminate-looking.
1693Dryden Juvenal x. (1726) 158 But your Endymion, your smooth, smock-fac'd Boy,..shall a beauteous Dame enjoy. 1706Estcourt Fair Example ii. i, A smock fac'd Rogue, with..a great deal of Impudence. 1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) I. 49 That poor smock-faced thing of a doctor. 1821Scott Kenilw. xiii, A little old smock-faced man,..soft-haired as well as beardless, appeared. 1855A. Bywater Shevvild Ann. 24 (E.D.D.), Working men look rayther too smock-faced for beards. 1866J. E. Brogden Prov. Lincs., Smock-faced, pale. 1923E. Sitwell Bucolic Comedies 16 Forlorn the smock-faced sheep sit.
transf.1684Otway Atheist i. i, With a hundred smiling smock-fac'd guineas. |