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smock frock en · NOUN

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1. A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over other clothing, as by farm labourers.
   • He was often introduced into meetings through back doors, with a smock frock on his back, and a whip in his hand. 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
   • What reason has he, therefore, to suppose that the return of the smock-frock will even increase the gobbling of potatoes and the drinking of cat-lap? 1823, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register, volume 46, page 777:
   • Among them we saw Rhys, and Llewellyn catching him by the smock-frock, as he came by him, pulled him out of the circle. 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 416:

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