Smock

Definitions

1. A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
2. A surname.
3. A blouse; a smock frock.
4. A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

Equivalents

Examples

“c. 1960s (version), 14th century' (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale Before the folk herself stripped she, And in her smock, with foot and head all bare, Toward her father's house forth is she fare.”

“And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.”

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