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ˈsmock-race
Also smock race.
[smock n. 1 b.]
A race in which a smock was offered as a prize to be run for by women or girls.
1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4356/4 The next Day will be a Smock Race run for by Maids in the same Park. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. x, I don't like to see my daughters..red with walking, and looking for all the world as if they had been winners at a smock-race. 1805Sporting Mag. XXV. 304 A smock-race and a jingling-match were to take place. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss. s.v., There used to be frequently, in my recollection, smock races among the young country wenches in the North.
So ˈsmock-racing vbl. n.
1790J. Woodforde Diary 24 May (1927) III. 192 Smock-racing at the Heart this Aft. being Whit-Monday. 1878Lecky England in 18th C. iv. I. 566 Among other amusements, smock-racing by women was kept up there [Pall Mall] till 1733. |