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outwear

[out-wair] / ˌaʊtˈwɛər /
VERB
outlast
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It was a carnival of outwear that could only be matched by typing “Rococo” into the Amazon search bar.

From Salon Jan. 21, 2025

There is an emphasis on architecture in the outwear, but with a more feminine touch.

From Seattle Times Feb. 23, 2023

The luxury outwear maker will hold an investor presentation on Thursday, its first since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the acquisition of streetwear brand Stone Island in 2020.

From Reuters May 4, 2022

Notably, this is the second time in recent months that Pelosi’s outwear has made fashion headlines.

From Fox News Jun. 14, 2019

And there was such a solemn melody, 'Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies,— Such as old grandames, watching by the dead, Are wont to outwear the night with.

From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

If they who hate the trespass most, Yet, when all other love is lost, Love the poor sinner, marvel not; Christ's mark outwears the rankest blot.

From The Christian Year by John Keble

The first cost is greater, but it outwears muslin or linen.

From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson

It outwears the protests and appeals of total generations of unhelped, indignant hearts.

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

Kiss Delia's hand for her sweet prophet's sake, Whose not affected but well couchèd tears Have power, have worth, a marble mind to shake, Whose fame no iron-age or time outwears.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow

"Love is the greatest Amulet that makes this world a garden: and 'Hope comes to all' outwears the accidents of life; and reaches with tremulous hands beyond the grave and Death."

From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver

They call the days the Golden Days that 'neath that king outwore, Amid such happiness of peace o'er men-folk did he reign.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris

It outwore the stoutest oak, the toughest elm.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

But his rival, the Briton, had qualities which outwore him, and the patriarchal and stable methods of the Hudson's Bay Company prevailed in the end.

From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan

How the dream outwore the night and strengthened as morning broke gray and cold, and quiet with the stillness of the desert, we need not follow.

From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote

Gladsome and gay forget thine every grief * Full often grief the      wisest hearts outwore: Thought is but folly in the feeble slave * Shun it and so be      saved evermore.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Setting recent works among older ones is an effective element of LACMA’s overall plan to shed outworn hierarchies.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

Could I remount the river of my years To the first fountain of our smiles and tears I would not trace again its stream of hours Between its outworn banks of withered flowers.

From Salon Dec. 25, 2021

That “hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn,” as science fiction author Wilson Tucker memorably put it when he coined the term in 1941.

From Washington Post Dec. 17, 2021

His theatrical, packed-to-the-gills exhibition at the Frye Art Museum aims to supplant the outworn heroes and cultural assumptions of the Western canon with new heroes, histories and paradigms.

From Seattle Times Feb. 6, 2018

Regularly he revolted against outworn techniques and materials.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

I had asked her to go home with me, and she had refused because she is so afraid of outwearing her welcome.

From Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

Again, it was her heart "outwearing its sheath," as she put it.

From Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray

But neither at the candle-lighted breakfast, nor later, when Ballard asked him if he were fit for a leisurely ride to the southern watershed for the day's outwearing, did he speak of young Carson's desertion.

From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde

That gave father-strength for bearing   Famine-need and sword, Honor death itself outwearing,   And it gave accord.

From Poems and Songs by Arthur Hubbell Palmer

Lo! on pinions bright, The Love-god comes, a yellow cincture bearing, To bind thee ever to thy dear delight, In nuptial knot, all other knots outwearing.

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams




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