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apparel

[uh-par-uhl] / əˈpær əl /


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While some clubs have transferred betting sponsors on to other parts of their apparel, it has not been widespread.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

About 400 of the roughly 4,000 apparel factories in the country have shut over the past two years, eliminating tens of thousands of jobs, according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

The apparel company was founded by Yael Aflalo, a California native, in 2009.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Reformation has tried to position itself outside of other millennial brands, analysts say, but the cyclical nature of the apparel market makes the category a tough sell.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

On the Red Lake Ojibwe rez, almost everyone at the high school dresses in Nike or Reebok sports apparel.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The Clean Clothes Campaign said it was braced for further cases of union suppression across the apparels industry.

From The Guardian Jun. 16, 2020

It is also adding to fears among labour rights campaigners that Covid-19 is providing cover for an industry-wide suppression of workers’ voices across the apparels industry.

From The Guardian Jun. 16, 2020

India unit and Mandhana Industries Ltd., an Indian maker of apparels with 5,000 employees in Mumbai and Bangalore, will give workers the option of taking the afternoon off.

From BusinessWeek Mar. 30, 2011

The Alb is often trimmed handsomely with lace, the apparels are stitched on to the front.

From Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

He hurried us off to the robing-rooms, and made us put on monastic and priestly garments over our several apparels.

From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

In contrast to the usual portrayals, Barbara Flynn’s matronly Mary is as confident and imperious as her cousin, if not nearly as well appareled.

From New York Times Sep. 14, 2018

They were met by a band of haggard men and women, meanly appareled, and in some cases little better than half-naked.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

The king’s three officers enter, richly appareled, their figures showing in strong relief against the red sky.

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig

To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

After a short confinement there, the Duke by royal order was delivered over to the custody of Sir James Tyler and another knight; and, "appareled in a piled black cloak," was escorted to Salisbury.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers

As a child, his world had been "apparelled in celestial light," but no longer.

From Salon Dec. 25, 2021

The veteran Robert Warwick is properly apparelled and deep-voiced as Chandler.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the middle of it there was a green silk canopy borne on four spears by four knights gorgeously apparelled.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

At one of the stations between Lichfield and London, we encounter a group whose chief figure is that of a pretty little lady, blithe as a golden butterfly, apparelled for the chase.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

What greater delight is there than to behold the earth apparelled with plants as with a robe of embroidered works, set with Orient pearls and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels?

From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Wordsworth idealized newborns, who he said entered life “trailing clouds of glory” and appareling all they saw in “celestial light.”

From Slate Nov. 1, 2013

For as Apollo each eve doth devise A new appareling for western skies; So every eve, nay every spendthrift hour Shed balmy consciousness within that bower.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by John Keats

The day came at last, and at ten Mrs. Dillingham entered the grand drawing-room in her queenly appareling.

From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

Pale and hard the face rose from this somber and gorgeous appareling.

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Jeannie's maid must have been a first-rate hand at throwing, if by that simple process she produced in a quarter of an hour that exquisite and finished piece of apparelling which appeared at half-past eight.

From Daisy's Aunt by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

The kind doctor was still by during the apparelling, or the attempt at it.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

"It is time that I were attending to my own apparelling, which, in looking at thee, I quite forgot," said the widow, rising, and leaving the apartment.

From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by John Turvill Adams

But Wat, dear Wat, will you not put off your gay apparelling and take a night at the cartes with us at home.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Elsie went out to buy a gift for Jacqueline, a bit of fine apparelling which she had coveted from the moment she knew Jacqueline should be a bride.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various




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