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smock frock

noun

  1. a loose overgarment of linen or cotton, as that worn by European farm laborers.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of smock frock1

First recorded in 1790–1800
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Example Sentences

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A light, loose overÏgarment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

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A Turk and a Norwegian peasant, and a man in a smock frock.

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After more Speeches in the same Strain, the British Labourer his Health drunk, and then the Prizes given out; and an old Man of 80, for bringing up a Family without costing the Parish 1d. in 50 Years, did receive �1, and others for honest Service nigh as long, a Jacket, a Smock Frock, or a Pair of Hob-Nail Boots, in Reward of Merit.

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Good Lack to think what a Deal we ate and drank between us, and how famished on one Hand looked a lean old Labourer in a Smock Frock with a chubby but hungry little Clown, eyeing the picked Bones, while a Cur on the other did, in his Mouth, run away with the Wing of a Fowl.

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“Frock” also appears in the “smock frock,” once the typical outer garment of the English peasant.

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