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smocking
noun as in fold
noun as in plica
noun as in plication
noun as in rimple
noun as in ruck
Example Sentences
Beatrice was wearing her polished cotton, very girlish with the smocking across the bodice.
Seattle-based, U.K.-born artist Harriet Salmon has printed them onto long scrolls of satin called “American smocking,” then folded and stitched the fabric into neat squares.
Even down to the shape of this smocking and the crystal application and then the dégradé within the cape.
“Of course it turned out there was neither a mushroom cloud nor a smoking gun, or as Trump has repeatedly called it, a ‘smocking gun’,” Meyers said.
“That’s probably why Trump’s speechwriters have never even bothered to write a line like that for him, because they know he’d never be able to pronounce the words – ‘We don’t want the smocking gun to be a mosh-room pizza.’”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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