appliqué
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Gallina, 75, was clad in a floor-length dark green striped appliqué jacket and clutching a paper ticket when she declared the Olympics to be a nuisance that has “nothing to do with Milan’s essence.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Cutting and sewing techniques allowed these prints to live anew as appliqué details.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
Originally, the patterns were inspired by traditional body painting, translated into colorful textiles in reverse appliqué worn as panels on women’s blouses.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2022
His aesthetic defined Indian-fusion style for Westerners in the late aughts, with a riotous palette and Indian craft methods like embroidery and appliqué.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2020
In the past appliqué was very little used, except as cut work, or opus consutum, in blazonments and heraldic devices.
From Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them by Marie D. (Marie Daugherty) Webster
The quilt features a number of needlecraft techniques including knitting, sewing, embroidery and applique.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2023
He put multicolored applique of hearts and stars on some of his looks, and several of his models wore low-heeled, dance-all-night boots above the knee in purple and gold.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
She wore an embroidered applique of a sunflower, Ukraine's national flower, on her dress sleeve in a sign of support for the country's people, the White House said.
From Reuters ● Mar. 2, 2022
She incorporates cut-paper collage and applique textiles to represent such things as flowers and clothing.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022
In college chapels I would listen to folk singing and see plain altars draped with bright applique banners: JOY!
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
The oddly placed shooting star on the bottom right is actually part of an appliquéd textile Münter made.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
She went on to define it as “a skirt with enough cloth to slipcover New Jersey with a big poodle appliquéd on it.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
Before he launched his clothing line, Ruby was known for his “soft sculptures”—huge Dr. Seuss-ish stuffed creatures, quilted and appliquéd and sewn from fabrics designed by the artist.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2019
Their uniforms were colorful, menacing and full of mystical symbols like stars and crosses that were appliquéd onto the fabric.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2015
She is by far the most attractive member of the family, yet she spends most of her time and money disguising herself beneath prosthetic humps and appliquéd skin diseases.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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Internment
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English Words Derived from French, List 11
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