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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of smock.

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Examples

  • Liberty stuffs very plain in line, but elaborately "smocked," were greatly in vogue, and evening dresses, "cut square," or with "Watteau pleats," were generally worn, and often in conscious protest against the London "low dress," which Oxford -- young married Oxford -- thought both ugly and

    A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885

  • Usually, this dress has detailing that makes it look a little more luxe than the typical beach caftan—a fluttery sleeve or a smocked waist, for example—so she can go from the sand to a nice restaurant if there isn't time to change.

    Packing Just Enough for a Weekend at the Beach Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2011

  • Their picnic consists of Irish lemonade, small cream-filledéclairs, and overpriced sandwiches bought from a shop with a white-smocked butcher who doesn't cut meat.

    Zebra Douglas Light 2011

  • Little girls wore smocked dresses, but older women usually wore blouses and skirts.

    Painting Inspired Dress # 1 2009

  • This is a story about artisanal cheese and hand-polished wooden toys, organic spinach and exquisitely smocked baby dresses — the burgeoning small-scale economy so beloved by members of the "creative class."

    Small Crafts vs. Big Government Virginia Postrel 2011

  • It started in a smocked dress and socks trimmed with lace.

    Measure Two Harley May 2011

  • She likes smocked dresses, jumpers with cute appliques, and pretty colors.

    Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009

  • I was wearing a white smocked chemise under my new yellow pointed bodice that laces in the back, a present from Rose.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • I was wearing a white smocked chemise under my new yellow pointed bodice that laces in the back, a present from Rose.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Nora Deacon's smocked dress art david foster wallace

    Archive 2008-09-01 The Nag 2008

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