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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 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

If he should outwear the century, he would still be as blithe of speech and manner as he is to-day at—dear me, how old is the Colonel?

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow

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

"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 Diver, Maud

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

From Caves of Terror by Mundy, Talbot

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

From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz

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

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

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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 Bryan, Claude Glennon

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

It outwore the stoutest oak, the toughest elm.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen

“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

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

And as I undressed I saw my outworn clothes and realized that I'd have to shed them.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

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.

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

From Elsie Marley, Honey by Gray, Joslyn

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

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.]




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