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Definition of "smocking" [smocking]

  • Needlework decoration of small, regularly spaced gathers stitched into a honeycomb pattern. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "smocking" in a sentence
  • "Guess the "smocking" is a critical attribute for me, huh?"
  • "Social sciences Do smocking reduce the dippression? smocking is a sedative which can actually deepen dippression what's "smocking"? what's a "dippression"?"
  • "I was allowed to attend the ceremony, to which I wore a beautiful pair of bottle-green velvet short trousers which Mum sewed for me, a pair of fire-engine red patent leather buckled shoes, white socks, and a little white shirt with smocking and a frilly round collar, extremely smart."
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