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apparel

[uh-par-uhl] / əˈpær əl /


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Shein said its product selection comprises of more than 2 million apparel styles, with customers able to select from about 4,700 new styles on a daily basis.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

The off-price apparel and home fashions retailer on Wednesday said it now expects its pretax profit margin to be in the range of 12.3% to 12.4%, up from a previous range of $11.9% to $12%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

While some clubs have transferred betting sponsors on to other parts of their apparel, it has not been widespread.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

"We got stuck with basic products," he said, adding that Bangladesh had not fully tapped opportunities in military uniforms and medical apparel.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

On the Red Lake Ojibwe rez, almost everyone at the high school dresses in Nike or Reebok sports apparel.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

Where joy and delight and beauty were, there he knew by sure signs were the parts of the mystery, the glorious apparels of the heavenly vestments.

From The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen

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 girl in the tonneau, barricaded with a huge trunk and several bags, besides a huge leather hat-box perched beside the chauffeur, was very gaily appareled as well.

From Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers by Alice B. Emerson

Then anon she came again, with a great black steed, strong and well appareled.

From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Unknown

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

Each evening found him, washed and appareled, at the mission, furnishing a decorous bass undertone to the hymns, looked on with approval by the missioner and his helpers.

From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Perceval Gibbon

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

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

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

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

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

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

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

"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

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

They were always apparelling themselves in gaudy dresses from Paris, and going away to balls, leaving their meritorious little sister weeping at home in their every-day finery.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce




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