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Definition of Smocks
1. smock [v] - See also: smock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smocks
Literary usage of Smocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1909)
"children's smocks axe quite charming, and seem very inexpensive. The subscription
to the Society is one guinea a year, and a commission of five per cent, ..."
2. The Shakespeare Garden by Esther Singleton (1922)
"With "violets blue" "lady- smocks all silver-white," and "cuckoo-buds of ever}'
hue," it "paints the meadows with delight" in that delightful spring-song in ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1904)
"There was an extraordinary amount of patient labour and careful skill devoted to
the stitching of these elaborately adorned smocks with their ..."
4. A Duke and His Friends: The Life and Letters of the Second Duke of Richmond by Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox March (1911)
"... of Shoreham, has no price, and lives to see his tempters worsted in the
fight—Sir Robert Walpole goes back on his word—A lady wins two smocks—Death of ..."
5. The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus by John Bull, Thomas Hood, Charles Lamb (1825)
"... are brighter than her box, Ч ken lovely Susan irons smocks, And burn me like
a beater. ... smocks ..."
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