outwear
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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 label emphasized outwear with lengthened silhouettes, ranging from tailored coats to puffed-out bomber jackets, and sprinkled some artwork and logos into the mix.
From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 2023
Notably, this is the second time in recent months that Pelosi’s outwear has made fashion headlines.
From Fox News ● Jun. 14, 2019
They are popularly supposed to outwear the bleached, but are somewhat trying bedfellows until whitened.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
"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
"An observant eye is better than a yearning ear, and patience outwears curiosity!"
From Caves of Terror by Talbot Mundy
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The first cost is greater, but it outwears muslin or linen.
From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson
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
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
It outwore the stoutest oak, the toughest elm.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
For, we never got over it; the threadbare Orrery outwore our mutual tenderness; the man with the wand was too much for the boy with the bow.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
Thou sayest my faith has been forfeit, O fair in thy glittering raiment; But I wearied my steed and outwore it, And for what but the love that bare thee?
From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
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
“Only old, outworn notions stand in the way of these ideas.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 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
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
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
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
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
Again, it was her heart "outwearing its sheath," as she put it.
From Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray
