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2 unusual facts about Smock


Smock

Smocking, an embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered, then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place

Smock-frock, a coatlike outer garment, often worn to protect the clothes


1663 in Ireland

Katherine Philips' translation of Pierre Corneille's Pompée is successfully produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin (Smock Alley Theatre), the first English language play written by a woman to be performed on the professional stage.

Cardamine pratensis

Cardamine pratensis (cuckoo flower or lady's smock), is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native throughout most of Europe and Western Asia.

Ghanaian smock

A man is seen wearing a smock in the opening scene of the Jackie Appiah movie, I Knew Nothing Till You Taught Me.

Outwood Windmill

The smock mill was run by the Budgen family until 1885 when Edward Scott, of Woolpits Mill, Nutfield bought the lease of the mill for £1,225.

Smock mill

The oldest surviving smock mill in England (dated to 1650) is located in Lacey Green, Buckinghamshire.

William Kimber

In 1922, Kimber was presented with the gold medal of the English Folk Dance Society at the music festival held in the gardens of New College, Oxford, with the professor of music, Sir Hugh Allen, presiding in a smock and a garlanded top hat.


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