smocking

IPA: smˈɑkɪŋ

(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.

Examples of "smocking" in Sentences

Guess the "smocking" is a critical attribute for me, huh?
I found a pretty Laura Ashley jumper with smocking today at Goodwill!
Sometimes a little elastic smocking or an obilike sash can camouflage a tummy.
I am not able to iron the upper part of the sleeve on this one, so I just leave it wrinkled and it looks like smocking.
Throughout her lifetime, her gifts of sewing, smocking, embroidery, and clothing to family and friends help tie them to her, and to one another.
But smocking them or adding some embroidered touches would make them new again ... and since I did it myself, I would make them even more my own.
Social sciences Do smocking reduce the dippression? smocking is a sedative which can actually deepen dippression what's "smocking"? what's a "dippression"?
I was allowed to attend the ceremony, to which I wore a beautiful pair of bottle-green velvet short trousers which Mum sewed for me, a pair of fire-engine red patent leather buckled shoes, white socks, and a little white shirt with smocking and a frilly round collar, extremely smart.