Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word smockfrock.

Examples

  • One of them, a carter in a smockfrock, seemed wavering and disposed to enlist.

    Barnaby Rudge 2007

  • The corpse had been thrown into the coffin so hastily that the skirt of the smockfrock was hanging over.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • It was open, and in it lay the body of a young man, wearing the smockfrock of a rustic, and fustian breeches.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • "It's agwyne to rai-ain, Mister Lunnoner!" added another smockfrock;

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • He was often introduced into meetings through back doors with a smockfrock on his back, and a whip in his hand.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • He accordingly provided himself with a smockfrock; a cart and horses, and a load of corn.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • One of them, a carter in a smockfrock, seemed wavering and disposed to enlist.

    Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

  • The smockfrock, which I saw hanging for sale as I came along, was an after-thought, that I mightn't be noticed.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

  • The unexpectedness of his presence, the grotesqueness of his appearance in a gathered smockfrock, such as was now worn only by the most old-fashioned of the labourers, had a ghastly comicality that chilled her as to its bearing.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

  • Hence as Tess stirred the clods, and sang her foolish little songs with scarce now a hope that Clare would ever hear them, she did not for a long time notice the person who worked nearest to her -- a man in a long smockfrock who, she found, was forking the same plot as herself, and whom she supposed her father had sent there to advance the work.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.