smock,Town-Gown Divide. Smock-frock

"Gustav Klimt in a blue painter's smock". Egon Schiele. 1913.

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Smock-frock

Garment

Description

A smock-frock or smock is an outer garment traditionally worn by rural workers, especially shepherds and waggoners. Today, the word smock refers to a loose overgarment worn to protect one's clothing, for instance by a painter. Wikipedia

smock. / (smɒk) / noun. any loose protective garment, worn by artists, laboratory technicians, etc. a woman's loose blouse-like garment, reaching to below the waist, worn over slacks, etc.

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gown

n.

1. A long loose flowing garment, such as a robe or nightgown.
2. A long, usually formal dress for a woman.
3. A robe or smock worn in operating rooms and other parts of hospitals as a guard against contamination.
4. A distinctive outer robe worn on ceremonial occasions, as by scholars or clerics.
5. The faculty and student body of a university: perfect accord between town and gown.

v., gowned, gown·ing, gowns. v.tr.

To clothe (oneself or another) with a gown.

v.intr.

To dress in a gown.

[Middle English goune, from Old French, from Late Latin gunna, leather garment.]