smicketn.
/ˈsmɪkɛt/ Now dialect.
A woman's smock or chemise; a small smock. In use during the 19th cent in many dialects.
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c1685 Adv. to Maidens Lond. ii, in Bagford Ballads (1878) 935 Susan and Joan they will have a Top-Knot, although they have never a Smicket.
c1690 in Roxburghe Ballads (1883) IV. 439 Stripping of all their Cloaths, their Gowns, their Petticoats, Shoes and Hose, Their fine white smickits then stripping.
1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 219 Over this Smicket they wear a large smock.
1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 219 Thus are their richest Smickets no better than a penitential Shirt.
1772 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (1797) I. 337 His dear Nelly, who had scarce An undarn'd smicket.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 141 Misses..Who, drench'd, ne'er catch cold, though without change of smickets.
1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxxi. 199 The white smickets wave below, While..The petticoats appear'd as banners.
1897 E. Phillpotts Lying Prophets 177 I found the whole fortune hid beneath her smickets.
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