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apparel

[uh-par-uhl] / əˈpær əl /


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Murray, who has sat on Hugo Boss’s supervisory board since May 2025, will succeed Stephan Sturm as chairman, the German premium apparel company said Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

"A lot of apparel today, whether it's Nike or other large brands, can feel disconnected from anything tangible," he says.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Tapping into L.A.’s crunchy side, the space will provide customers with gear and apparel from RC Outdoor Supply, while serving as a resource for nature lovers.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Handbags have the added allure of having higher profit margins than apparel and for driving foot traffic to stores and websites, Dickson said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

However, to please her, I allowed Sophie to apparel her in one of her short, full muslin frocks.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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

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 Arthur Machen

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 ladies on the foundation of this order were appareled after their own pleasure and liking.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge

Then by that happy, blissful day, More peaceful pilgrims I shall see, That have cast off their rags of clay, And walk appareled fresh like me.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge

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 Clark S. Beardslee

And as soon as they were come in, they saw Indian men and women appareled like Spaniards, whom they asked in what country they were?

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

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

But the purest of sentiments and the loftiest of purposes do not constitute poetry, even when apparelled in verse.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin

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 Henry Curling

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

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

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

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

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

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 Ambrose Bierce




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