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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

He said: "When you've been sitting there since the crack of dawn in a smock waiting to have open heart surgery, however calm I tried to feel, you still get a bit nervous."

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2024

The medical technician at the imaging center seemed to know that she was coming, but the woman didn't smile when she handed her the lavender smock.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Early-morning pilgrims had arrived by foot or car, some in traditional white smocks and thatched hats, carrying wooden staves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

"People are coming specifically for it now," textile trader William Nene said as he folded freshly woven smocks, which are also known as "batakari", at his small stall in central Accra.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Until the 1960s smocks were generally worn at school to protect children's clothes from ink stains.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2023

The smocks, knee-length and sleeveless, were made from cotton drill — a heavyweight fabric similar to denim — usually in a striped print; young women wore them as fashion frocks.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

“We’ll wear painters’ smocks and blue berets and do watercolors next—what do you say to that, Helen?

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

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

Three of Graham’s young grandchildren, two polite sandy-haired girls in smocked sundresses and a boy in a blue blazer, stood by large coolers of water and iced tea, filling glasses.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 11, 2018

There’s a picture, framed in light gray, of Cordelia’s two older sisters, done in pastels when they were younger, both wearing smocked dresses, their hair feathery, their eyes like mist.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

Beatrice was wearing her polished cotton, very girlish with the smocking across the bodice.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck