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19 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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smock-frock
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synonyms: slop ???
tags: [fashion]
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Definition:A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---an outer garment traditionally worn by rural workers, especially shepherds and waggoners, in parts of England and Wales from the late 18th century.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
painting: Found by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smockfrock_from_Found.jpg
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He now wears shining boots with hardly a hob in 'em, two or three times a-week, and a tall hat a-Sundays, and 'a hardly knows the name of smockfrock.
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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on the far side of a field on his left hand he could see six or seven men in smock-frocks with hay-forks in their hands making an offensive approach towards the four railway agents who were facing them,
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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The watchmaker, always poring over a little desk with a magnifying-glass at his eye, and always inspected by a group of smock-frocks poring over him through the glass of his shop-window, seemed to be about the only person in the High Street whose trade engaged his attention.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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