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 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 it is good," said the salesman, emphatically; "it'll outwear three of those other ones downstairs.
From Ben Pepper by Sidney, Margaret
"An observant eye is better than a yearning ear, and patience outwears curiosity!"
From Caves of Terror by Mundy, Talbot
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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 Keble, John
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 Crow, Martha Foote
The first cost is greater, but it outwears muslin or linen.
From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz
It outwore the stoutest oak, the toughest elm.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
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 Foote, Mary Hallock
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 Dickens, Charles
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 Morris, William
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 Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)
“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
Labor-intensive, visually compelling works by the Bahamian artist seem to challenge outworn heroes and cultural assumptions of the Western canon, yet some of Strachan’s simplest pieces may be his most pleasing.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2018
And as I undressed I saw my outworn clothes and realized that I'd have to shed them.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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 Williams, Theodore C.
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 Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
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 Lynde, Francis
That gave father-strength for bearing Famine-need and sword, Honor death itself outwearing, And it gave accord.
From Poems and Songs by Palmer, Arthur Hubbell
Again, it was her heart "outwearing its sheath," as she put it.
From Elsie Marley, Honey by Gray, Joslyn
