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apparel

[uh-par-uhl] / əˈpær əl /


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The China-founded company known for ultracheap, trendy apparel is offering 280 million class B shares for 47.60 Hong Kong dollars to HK$49.50 each.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Compared with 2021, more of the money Walmart customers spend on apparel there is for items priced $25 or higher, according to internal documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The launch of the new line comes as Walmart’s clothing and accessories sales have grown for seven consecutive quarters, and it is taking market share from department stores and specialty apparel retailers, executives said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Still, its biggest competitor, Amazon is growing its overall share of apparel sales faster, according to some third-party data.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Meanwhile the girl fetched all her soiled apparel to bundle in the polished wagon box.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

Fear ye God and take heed lest forms and apparels debar you from recognizing Him.

From Selections From the Writings of the Báb by Báb

He hurried us off to the robing-rooms, and made us put on monastic and priestly garments over our several apparels.

From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

The king’s three officers enter, richly appareled, their figures showing in strong relief against the red sky.

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig

Behold, they who are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' palaces. 26But what went ye out to see?

From The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union. by American Bible Union

Behold, those who are gorgeously appareled, and live luxuriously, are in kings' houses.

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

By twelve he was appareled in a neat gray suit and clean linen, and feeling very much himself.

From The Man from Jericho by Edwin Carlile Litsey

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

Chaucer’s grave graduate was apparelled in a purple surcoat, and a blue and white furred hood.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

The citizens generally are apparelled in mourning; and the public places of amusement have long been closed.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Joseph Holt Ingraham

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

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

Pale and hard the face rose from this somber and gorgeous appareling.

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

The kind doctor was still by during the apparelling, or the attempt at it.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

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

"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




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