smock-faced

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English

Adjective

smock-faced (comparative more smock-faced, superlative most smock-faced)

  1. (dated) Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish.
    • 1933, Montague Summers, The Werewolf:
      A smock-faced amoroso.
    • 1830, Auchindrane, Walter Scott:
      That counter-casting, smock-faced boy.
    • 1732, Henry Fielding, The Miser:
      None of your smock-faced young fellows.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “smock-faced”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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