a. Now rare. [Cf. prec.] Having a pale smooth face; effeminate-looking.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, X. (1726), 158. But your Endymion, your smooth, smock-fac’d Boy,… shall a beauteous Dame enjoy.
1706. Estcourt, Fair Example, II. i. A smock fac’d Rogue, with … a great deal of Impudence.
1797. Mrs. A. M. Bennett, Beggar Girl (1813), I. 49. That poor smock-faced thing of a doctor.
1821. Scott, Kenilw., xiii. A little old smock-faced man,… soft-haired as well as beardless, appeared.
1855. A. Bywater, Shevvild Ann., 24 (E.D.D.). Working men look rayther too smock-faced for beards.
1866. Brogden, Prov. Lincs., Smock-faced, pale.
transf. 1684. Otway, Atheist, I. i. With a hundred smiling smock-fac’d guineas.
