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[smok] / smɒk /
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Constitution T-shirts, flag pillows and patriotic smock dresses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 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

She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

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

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

After donning museum-supplied smocks, children can use small tools and toy building materials to redirect this stream, block it or send it coursing down chutes, through pipes and around artificial land masses.

From New York Times Aug. 26, 2021

Before Johnny’s mother died, she had made him four smocks.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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

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

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




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