Definition of "smock-frock" []

• A garment of coarse linen, resembling a shirt in shape, worn by field-laborers over their other clothes: similar to the French blouse. The yoke of this garment at its best is elaborately shirred or puckered. See smocking. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "“Stand and deliver,” said one of them, a short stout fellow, in a smock-frock, such as are worn by waggoners."
• "Few women of old family can be thoroughly taught that a fine soul may wear a smock-frock, and an admittedly common man in one is but a worm in their eyes."
• "The old boy in the smock-frock, as Mr. Brummell called him, was"