What Is a Smock?
A Smock-Frock or Smock Is an Outer Garment Traditionally Worn by Rural Workers, Especially Shepherds and Waggoners, in Parts of England and Wales Throughout...
A smock-frock or smock is an outer garment traditionally worn by rural workers, especially shepherds and waggoners, in parts of England and Wales throughout the 18th century. Today, the word smock refers to a loose overgarment worn to protect one's clothing, for instance by a painter.
What is a smock used for?
Modern smocks are loose, lightweight, sleeved garments, often worn to protect the clothes while working. Artists traditionally wore smocks to protect their clothing from paint, marble dust, or any other detritus from the medium in which they worked. Smocks have also been popular garments for pregnant women.
What does smock mean in slang?
noun. US derogatory, slang. a foolish or contemptible person; oaf.
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