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apparel

[uh-par-uhl] / əˈpær əl /


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European football governing body Uefa estimates that up to 60% of professional team apparel, external is disposed of at the end of the season, although this figure has not been independently verified.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

In May, Authentic struck a roughly $1 billion deal with the apparel retailer Kontoor Brands to buy its Lee denim and casual-clothing business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Food supply chains, motor vehicles and parts, household furnishings, apparel, recreational goods and some nondurable goods are among the categories most likely to experience “meaningful spillovers” from higher diesel prices, they said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Brown and his Black Pyramid Co. apparel business, a co-defendant, argued in their motion filed in August that the award to Patricia Avila was “excessive and unsupported by evidence.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

“One bedroom above an apparel shop,” said Alvin Hooks.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

There is continual mention in the records of those times of offerings of embroideries and other Church apparels.

From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford

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

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

He received a large sum to defray his expenses; and when he appeared at court, on December 17th, he was no longer in irons and disgrace, but richly appareled and surrounded with friends.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey

First of all was Columbus, richly appareled, with the banner of Spain in his hand.

From A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by Clayton Edwards

The girl in the tonneau, barricaded with a huge trunk and several bags, besides a huge leather hat-box perched beside the chauffeur, was very gaily appareled as well.

From Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers by Alice B. Emerson

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

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

She was usually neatly apparelled in black, and was so small that when Mrs. F. entered her class, at the age of twelve, the pupil was larger than the teacher.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

And there were twenty of us, apparelled alike, and all akin, and we were knights prepared to joust with all comers.

From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan

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 Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

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

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

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

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

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 Ambrose Bierce

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




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