outwear

It was a carnival of outwear that could only be matched by typing “Rococo” into the Amazon search bar.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025

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

Meanwhile, men’s pants and shorts rose 11.2 percent from a year ago, while suits, sport coats and outwear prices climbed 9.3 percent.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2022

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

From Fox News ● Jun. 14, 2019

The kind manufactured for hotels and restaurants and of sufficient capacity, is more expensive, but will outwear two outfits of the cheaper type and is really more economical in the long run.

From Camping For Boys by Henry William Gibson

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

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

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

"An observant eye is better than a yearning ear, and patience outwears curiosity!"

From Caves of Terror by Talbot Mundy

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

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

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

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

“Only old, outworn notions stand in the way of these ideas.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

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

“I had outworn my usefulness,” Watt said of his decision, adding that others “wouldn’t get off my case” about his insulting coal advisory panel comment.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

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

Gradually the plant engineer removed the tubing to use to patch other outworn equipment at the Hediondo.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

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

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

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

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