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Get them a gift that matches their path: from a foam roller for the wellness coach to a stylish smock for the aspiring pop-up chef.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

"Unlike kente, which is largely ceremonial, the smock is everyday wear," he said, referring to another form of traditional Ghanian dress worn during major celebrations.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

There, finally, on the other side of the plexiglass, sat Khalil, swimming in a large blue smock.

From Slate ● May 2, 2025

Loftus has been jailed since his arrest, and he appeared in court in a white smock and shackles, which Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong ordered removed during the hearing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

For a moment—just a moment—put the man in the white smock back in his closet.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Ghanaians have rushed to defend their colourful handwoven "fugu" smocks after President John Mahama's wearing of the loose-fitting traditional garment on a recent state visit to Zambia caused an online storm.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

During three months, a team of 1,000 people hand-stitched 2,000 square metres of striped cotton, before decorating it with 130 traditional smocks known as batakari.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024

But I guess if the Neue gets enough people parading through town in those smocks, Klimt will join Kahlo as yet another artist whose look has as much appeal as the work.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2023

Everything such as smocks, paint, brushes and canvases will be provided.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

But there were those smocks and that pirate gear.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

It’s a place where people pause to chat up strangers on oak-and-magnolia-draped streets, a place where boutiques sell smocked baby dresses and shirts with phrases such as “Pearls Are Always Appropriate.”

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

Or: a Mexican-style peasant dress, smocked or embroidered.’”

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

You know, from the pending doom of an offseason in which the bulk of last year’s contending ballclub was shipped out, to the euphoria of the 13-2 start that gob smocked just about everyone.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2019

The iconic Herrera white shirt is rewritten in a myriad of ways: cropped, ruched, smocked, sleeveless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2018

She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Even down to the shape of this smocking and the crystal application and then the dégradé within the cape.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2021

A lot of that smocking wall is built.

From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2018

The latest misspelling came on Wednesday when Trump tried to quote a guest on Fox News, only to type smocking gun when he should have written smoking gun.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2018

I counted at least six different needlework techniques—including smocking, pin pleats, and rosettes—that descended from puffed shoulder to netting-frilled wrist.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2016

And the clothes he would make for her—pink crêpe de Chine frocks with dainty smocking at the yoke and sleeves.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers