Smocking

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  • noun. Needlework decoration of small, regularly spaced gathers stitched into a honeycomb pattern.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An ornamental shirring, recently used, intended to imitate that on the smock-frocks of field-laborers. The lines, instead of being horizontal, form a honeycomb, the material being puckered diagonally.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered and then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place.
  • verb. Present participle of smock.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches
    • Word Usage
    "Guess the "smocking" is a critical attribute for me, huh?"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    embroidery  fancywork  
    verb-stem
    smock  
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