smocking (smoking)

[ This shirt was a curious garment, of the finest drawn hair, and exquisitely wrought in a kind of smocking , with each little nest caught together by tiny bows of red and blue ribbon. The Critic, XI. 147. smock le (smok'les), a. [ ME.smokles; I hope it be nat your entente That I smokles out of your paleys wente. Chaucer , Clerk's Tale, 1. 819. Strong linen smock-linen (smok'lin"en), n. from which smock-frocks are made, especially in England.