Usually means: Decorative embroidery using gathered fabric.
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  1. smocking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. smocking: Merriam-Webster
  3. smocking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. smocking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. smocking: Collins English Dictionary
  6. smocking: Vocabulary.com
  7. smocking: Wordnik
  8. smocking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. smocking: Wiktionary
  10. smocking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. smocking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. smocking: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. smocking: Dictionary.com
  14. Smocking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. smocking: Rhymezone
  16. smocking: FreeDictionary.org
  17. smocking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. smocking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smocking: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (sewing) An embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered and then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place; the product of the use of this embroidery technique.

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