a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
<noun.artifact> [ verb ]
embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally
<verb.creation> The folk dancers wore smocked shirts
Smock \Smock\, a. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
{Smock mill}, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post.
{Smock race}, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.]
Smock \Smock\, v. t. To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. --Tennyson.
Smock \Smock\ (sm[o^]k), n. [AS. smocc; akin to OHG. smocho, Icel. smokkr, and from the root of AS. sm[=u]gan to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close, MHG. smiegen, Icel. smj[=u]ga to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to glide. Cf. {Smug}, {Smuggle}.] 1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.
In her smock, with head and foot all bare. --Chaucer.
2. A blouse; a smoock frock. --Carlyle.
For those with a figure problem, he brought out some loose smock dresses in hot-weather cottons, most original with flowered appliques on the huge puff sleeves and yokes.
"Who's that, mama?" asked the blue-eyed girl in a red corduroy smock with Winnie the Pooh on the front, tossing her ponytail.
As Ungaro has eased up on skintight silhouettes, the most welcome innovation is in his new, flowing smock tops of silk in beautiful shades like pink, yellow and raspberry, often over narrow skirts.
Its president, Dan Kourkoumelis, is said to don a grocer's smock and do some real work now and then.
My daughter secreted a Barbie under her smock, and I believe my son has at least one Ghostbuster shoved in the waistband of his pants.