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apparel

[uh-par-uhl] / əˈpær əl /


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Machinery, footwear and apparel were manufacturing hub Vietnam's major exports to the EFTA.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

He said many portfolio managers would prefer to own Nvidia headed into 2027 rather than the athletic apparel company that’s struggling to engineer a turnaround.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

“It’s a small change,” said Phillip McIlrath, the manager of an Indiana apparel warehouse using the new boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

But then the Price-Rite store in Anacortes canceled its weekly quarter-page advertisement; then Lottie Opsvig’s apparel shop on Main Street, then Larsen’s Lumberyard and the Anacortes Cafe.

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

Ushered by a gate into the Johore Village, we viewed the habitations, weapons, apparels, and curiosities of that Malay tribe.

From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna S. Wisthaler

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

Each evening found him, washed and appareled, at the mission, furnishing a decorous bass undertone to the hymns, looked on with approval by the missioner and his helpers.

From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Perceval Gibbon

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

May Nuttall was a fine lady, finely appareled.

From The Man Who Knew by Edgar Wallace

Indeed, he was rather well appareled and normally might have been a very respectable citizen.

From The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found by Grace Brooks Hill

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

All these archers were of the King's guard and had thus apparelled themselves to make solace to the King.

From England by Sir Frank Fox

The goblin meantime had gone to Einion’s wife, in the disguise of a richly apparelled knight, and made love to her, pretending that her husband was dead.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

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

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

"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

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

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

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

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 Abraham Merritt


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