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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

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

At last, sometime after one o’clock, a white smock billowed off the trolley and whipped into the garage.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

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

Ashley, who had no formal design training, made her first foray into dresses in 1959, when she began producing gardening smocks.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

Waxed coats, denim smocks and bucket hats, based on patterns found at its quayside factory and hand-sewn by a 20-strong team, have proved a hit in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Australia.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2021

The room was in a frenzy of girls removing their store smocks and fluffing their hair and putting on hats.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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 bend down and give her a hug, say, “Mae Mobley, did you like that smocked dress I sent over last week?”

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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

Cillizza, Tribe and Karem were not alone among celebrities who jumped on the "smocking gun" bandwagon, with most leaning toward Cillizza's humorous tone.

From Salon ● Dec. 10, 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