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apparel

[uh-par-uhl] / əˈpær əl /


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The businesses she’s seen rely on MCAs run the gamut of industries from construction to apparel and tend to be very small, with no more than a few employees, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

For the uninitiated, Quince is a high-end, direct-to-consumer brand which makes duplicates of pricey, popular apparel and accessories.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Prices of goods like apparel and toys, which are often made from petrochemicals, also ticked up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

“One bedroom above an apparel shop,” said Alvin Hooks.

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

The Alb is often trimmed handsomely with lace, the apparels are stitched on to the front.

From Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

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

Except John Danusco, all the rest came with him from Peru: and every one of them brought fourteen or fifteen thousand ducats: all of them went well and costly appareled.

From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]

The gentle government agent sits on the platform, and in front of the rostrum is the splendidly appareled chief mudiliyar, to interpret between auctioneer and buyers.

From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield

At the front stood the three whom I had supposed to be priests at the amphitheatre, and with them was a man very aged and white haired, but erect and gorgeously appareled.

From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

Casler, who was nothing if not dramatic, was appareled in a full broadcloth dress-suit and silk hat and sat upon the boot of a large family carriage.

From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher

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

This curious procession was followed by Dr. Fulton and a tall elderly gentleman similarly apparelled to the surgeons.

From First Person Paramount by Ambrose Pratt

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

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

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

Elsie went out to buy a gift for Jacqueline, a bit of fine apparelling which she had coveted from the moment she knew Jacqueline should be a bride.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various

"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

But Wat, dear Wat, will you not put off your gay apparelling and take a night at the cartes with us at home.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

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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