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ˈsmock-frock, n.
[smock n.]
1. A loose-fitting garment of coarse linen or the like, worn by farm-labourers over or instead of a coat and usually reaching to mid-leg or lower.
a1800Pegge Suppl. Grose, Smock-frock, a coarse linen shirt worn over the coat by waggoners, &c., called in the South a Gaberdine. 1805Ann. Reg., Chron. 420/2 He pulled off his jacket or smock-frock. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xix, Men had lounged about all night in smock-frocks, and leather-leggings. 1883T. Hardy in Longm. Mag. July 258 The genuine white smock-frock..and the whity-brown one..are rarely seen now afield.
Comb.1891Catholic News 29 Aug. 8/4 It is smockfrock-like in shape, with a hole for the neck.
2. A man wearing a smock-frock.
1858Thackeray Virgin. I. xv. 112 The smock⁓frocks did not seem to heed, and clamped out of church quite unconcerned. 1898J. Arch Story Life ii. 31 Regular pitched battles they were of smock frock against cloth coat, in which smock frock held his own right well.
Hence ˈsmock-frock v. intr. (with it), to wear a smock-frock; ˈsmock-frocked a., wearing a smock-frock.
1808Cobbett Political Reg. XIV. 20 Aug. 257 Among the smock-frocked politicians. 1840Hood Ye Tourists & Travellers 6 Play dominoes, smoke, wear a cap and smock-frock it. 1885Eng. Illustr. Mag. Aug. 739/1 The stolid smock-frocked peasantry. |