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
On songs like these, Bieber is able to prance lightly, his voice a glittery appliqué.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2020
Appliqué: Design an appliqué unit in a 7-inch square that might be applied to a pin cushion top, a bag or a square for a patchwork quilt.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Vocabulary lists containing appliqué
Internment
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"The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol
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English Words Derived from French, List 11
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