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smock

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Searchable Lemmata: smoc (OE), smoc (ME), smok (AF), smoke (OScots), smock (MdE).
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    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Garment; shirt or undergarment, usually sleeveless; in later uses at least most frequently worn by a woman; chemise; shift.(circa 1000 still in current use)
1. Colobium dictum quia longum est et sine manicis loþa hom ł smoc mentel. [DOE HlGl (Oliphant) (1350 (C1582))]
2. Colobium : smoc ł syrc. [DOE AntGl 2 (Kindschi) (0761 (758))]
3. colobium : loþa, serc, smocc, hemeþe. [DOE AldV 13.1 (Nap) (3733 (3725))]
4. Ðe chire[che] cloðes ben to brokene ... Ðe corporeals sole and unshapliche; hire handcloðes and hire bord cloðes makede wite ... Ðe meshakele of medeme fustane ... Hire chemise smal and hwit ... and hire smoc hwit ... and hire winpel wit oðer maked geleu mid saffran(work: ?a1200) (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Trin.Hom. ((Trin-C B.14.52) 163) ante 1225]
5. un smok, prix de .xi. deners Legal. [AND PRO (SC 8/255/12724) 1403]
c.f.: colobium, hemeþe, sark
AF, ME, MdE, OE, OScots.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Back, Chest, Neck, Shoulder(s), Waist.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, OE smoc; from Old Norse smokkr (OHG smoccho, etc.). The origin or the word may be related to a verb meaning 'to decorate', so the smock may have been embroidered. .
WF:
Etym Cog: smokkr (ON).
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