What's the difference between blouse and smock?

Blouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (2) The latter is fresh out of university, fluent in English and wears a canary-yellow silk blouse and tight jeans with a large designer handbag.
  • (3) In Mad Max: Fury Road , she wears engine oil as makeup and bandages as a blouse.
  • (4) Police said the attack left the woman with a hole the size of quarter in her blouse but she declined medical attention and sustained no injuries.
  • (5) I wanted a better life.” Dressed for the festival in a smart black skirt and a high-necked blouse adorned with a cameo necklace, she is enjoying the lavish spectacle.
  • (6) Theresa May will recall her habit of dancing to Abba’s Dancing Queen in a pair of flared trousers and a yellow blouse with “huge voluminous sleeves” during a guest appearance on Desert Island Discs .
  • (7) The fitness maven looked magnificent in a see-through black blouse under a fitted gold jacket.
  • (8) In an airy white blouse, art gallery owner Dasha Zhukova poses serenely on a chair, in a photograph taken for a Russian fashion website.
  • (9) The style even included high-collared blouses with "ties" that were inch-wide strips of material that clipped around the neck and were often embellished with a single fabric flower.
  • (10) Children had no clear preferences for males and preferred the female in the blouse and skirt.
  • (11) I bought a casual gray business suit jacket and skirt with a white blouse and black tights.
  • (12) The flower in the boy's hair and the blouse coming off his shoulders I think signify that the boy is a male prostitute.
  • (13) Downstairs a small stage spans the width of the room, replete with velvet curtains and disco ball – close the curtains and it transforms into a fitting room where you can try on playful womenswear like blouses with hexagon-shaped puff-sleeves and asymmetrical tulip skirts.
  • (14) Facing taunts and jeers, Chimbalanga, wearing a woman's blouse, and Monjeza appeared in court to answer three charges of unnatural practices between males and gross indecency.
  • (15) Even after the illness, Bauby's wandering left eye comes to rest on naked, sun-kissed legs, gaping blouses and a pair of full lips pursed in a blown kiss.
  • (16) Perhaps unsurprisingly, May, by her own admission, was not a rebellious child and the only outrageous element of her life growing up in the 70s appears to have been her wardrobe choices: “Flared trousers and … a yellow blouse that had huge voluminous sleeves”.
  • (17) Sitting on a plump hotel sofa in a black skirt, cream blouse and black bow tie, she resembles a spiffy doll; when special emphasis is required, she brushes aside her platinum hair and widens the lamplight eyes that have earned her comparisons with Bette Davis .
  • (18) The train skirts the main Jewish ultra-orthodox enclaves of the city, where stones are thrown at cars breaking the sabbath prohibition and women are instructed to wear modest dress (“closed blouse, with long sleeves, long skirt – no trousers, no tight-fitting clothes,” according to the text of wall posters), and up to French Hill, the site of the first post-1967 Jewish settlement across the green line and later, of numerous bus bombings carried out by Palestinian militants.
  • (19) My mother used to wear this blouse and now I am wearing it.” She places more objects gently in the box.
  • (20) 9 patients with typical textile dermatitis were found to be allergic to dark polyester blouses.

Smock


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.
  • (n.) A blouse; a smoock frock.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
  • (v. t.) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) David Fry, a 27-year-old occupier from Ohio and the very last protester to turn himself in after intense FBI negotiations, appeared in federal court in Portland on Friday, wearing a green anti-suicide smock.
  • (2) After apparent outside pressure on the brig due to my mistreatment, I was given a suicide prevention article of clothing called a "smock" by the guards.
  • (3) There were MPs (Hilary Benn and family), a smattering of celebs, a lot of public sector workers, Unison stewards in smart purple smocks.
  • (4) Although I am still required to strip naked in my cell at night, I am now given the "smock" to wear.
  • (5) Glastonbury has a record of incubating trends – Hunter wellingtons, the "backstage Barbour" jacket, smocked dresses and floral crowns all developed there.
  • (6) And secondly, his appearance is all the answer I need: a slight, young-looking, 42-year-old with thick, black-rimmed glasses, wavy vertical quiff and a blue-grey smock shirt that could be part of a uniform on, say, an intergalactic space vessel.
  • (7) But if the meaning was a little vague, the clothes were pretty, and played the good-guys in this dystopian vision, with butter-wouldn’t-melt artist-smock shapes in dreamy chambray and broderie anglaise.
  • (8) The nearby village where Tolstoy tried to educate peasant children in the 1860s still exists – now, as then, something of a dump; yet so evocative is the atmosphere that it wouldn't be surprising if Tolstoy himself burst from the lime trees wearing his peasant smock.
  • (9) I'd always played girls, so acting 11 was no particular challenge; the Edwardian smocks usefully concealed any bust line.
  • (10) Donated clothes, food, medicines and other essentials were piled high on tables in a room the size of a basketball court on Monday night as volunteers in brightly coloured smocks and t-shirts bustled, arranging goods and tending to the migrants.
  • (11) Bit off, I think, for you to bring smocks and overalls into the equation, as if corporate suits were only another type of necessary professional uniform.
  • (12) It was close to 1am by the time Madonna finally came trundling on to Melbourne’s Forum stage on Thursday, dressed in a bright yellow clown smock, riding a tiny tricycle and waving to a sea of 1,500 competition winners.
  • (13) I recommend a good dose of Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience , possibly an act of random kindness or two, and certainly a nice chintz smock.
  • (14) However, the brig now orders me to wear the "smock" at night.
  • (15) Bearded young men grew their hair long, wore floral chintz smocks, and declared themselves "the Apostles of the Newness".
  • (16) Photograph: Felix Clay Seated in a bare interview room last month, wearing a blue smock and plucking at a wristband stamped with his detention number and ordained destination – Mexico – Mendoza was sombre, soft-spoken and weakened from two weeks of fasting.
  • (17) An imam, donning a plastic smock over his white robe, prepared to wash them while another man began cutting cotton shrouds for the day's burials.
  • (18) Her hair is long and grey, and she's wearing a loose-fitting linen smock.
  • (19) The Pentagon has now said that it allows Bradley Manning to wear a garment at night, which his lawyer described as a smock.
  • (20) Under the terms of his detention, he is kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, checked every five minutes under a so-called "prevention of injury order" and stripped naked at night apart from a smock.