smock

How to use smock in a sentence

The third was a mournful-eyed Schree, clad in an ornamented smock-like garment, from which his thin limbs thrust grotesquely.

Michael himself, not so ruddy, nor so determined, in white smock and blue stockings.

A smock covered her into shapelessness, and her spectacular hair was bound up in a kerchief, but she still looked good.

SECURITYPOUL WILLIAM ANDERSON

Why do Michael and the gardeners wear smock frocks and blue stockings?

And how had that little torn smock ever been drawn over those gigantic shoulders!

Gabriel's hand, which had lain for some time idle in his smock-frock pocket, touched his flute which he carried there.

Not beneath an embroidered waistcoat, only beneath a woollen smock, can a noble heart beat.

He sits shambling in the saddle, his smock and tall boots dangle on his bony figure.

I certainly thought it was a smock-frock, though, when I saw you go out in it.

FRANK FAIRLEGHFRANK E. SMEDLEY

Those who adopt this view called the plant Our Lady's-smock, but I cannot find that name in any old writers.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985