smock

“Or just ‘cause I’m singing about a woman having a baby doesn’t mean I have to wear a maternity smock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

Mornings the door squealed open and a woman in a blue smock carried the plate of hot gruel to the cot.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2023

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

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

You did not see them again except as sport clothes, odd-looking at a table among the closely packed peasants in black smocks.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

It was as if the Changs had run flat life through a fancy new sewing machine, and seen it emerge smocked.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

In that sense, perhaps this was a win of some kind for the president, whose Twitter hot streak has left him positively smocking.

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