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apparel

[uh-par-uhl] / əˈpær əl /


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He has since set up an expedition guiding company and mountaineering apparel brand.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

The apparel company, which also owns Vans, raised its full-year sales outlook following a stronger-than-expected first quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

He said tennis shoes and apparel were also either sold out or in short supply, and some stores had jacked up racket prices.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

The footwear and apparel company also bumped up its profit forecast for the fiscal year, but kept its sales outlook unchanged.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

For months we’d been moving as much of our furniture and apparel out of the apartment as we could.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

The Clean Clothes Campaign said it was braced for further cases of union suppression 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

It is confined at the waist by a girdle, and, when employed in the Eucharist, it is often, though not necessarily, ornamented with patches of embroidery called apparels.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

Where joy and delight and beauty were, there he knew by sure signs were the parts of the mystery, the glorious apparels of the heavenly vestments.

From The Secret Glory by Machen, Arthur

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

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 Zweig, Stefan

The Earl of that island was appareled all in white, cloak, jerkin, hose, shoes and cap, so that he seemed a Lord of the Gipsies.

From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]

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 Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

Those words are appareled with a beautiful charity.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

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

By-and-by a couple of cavaliers, splendidly mounted and magnificently apparelled, came galloping up.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

We watched an extremely good-looking and richly apparelled young lady, who, after she had said her preliminary devotions, looked round her as if seeking somebody.

From Cuba Past and Present by Davey, Richard

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

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

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

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 Keats, John

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

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

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

They were always apparelling themselves in gaudy dresses from Paris, and going away to balls, leaving their meritorious little sister weeping at home in their every-day finery.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose

"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 Adams, John Turvill

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 Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)

Then, having finished apparelling us and still chuckling, the two touched our arms and led us out, into a room whose circular sides were ringed with soft divans.

From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham




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