smocked

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   wearing or dressed in a smock

   Smocked elders gathered beside the fairground stalls to see what had happened.

2. 2
   adj

   decorated or fitted with smocking, a pattern of gathered ornamental stitching

   The child wore a smocked dress with blue embroidery across the chest.

Formed from smock + -ed. Smock comes from Old English smoc, a loose garment. Smocked can mean "wearing a smock" or describe fabric worked with smocking, the decorative technique that gathers cloth into elastic folds with stitching.

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