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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

TJX TJX 0.00%increase; up pointing triangle raised its full-year profit outlook after reporting higher second-quarter sales and earnings, as more budget-leery shoppers continued to flock to its banners for discounted home goods and apparel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The $200-million shopping center, which first opened in 2018, is 99% leased, with one-third of the shops are new, including an Italian steakhouse called Spacca Tutto by chef Nancy Silverton and women’s apparel retailer LESET.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 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

For months we’d been moving as much of our furniture and apparel out of the apartment as we could.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

There is continual mention in the records of those times of offerings of embroideries and other Church apparels.

From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford

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

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 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

All of them were appareled in deers' skins tanned and dyed black, to wit, coats, hose, and shoes.

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

Then she directed that the others be made ready; richly and nobly she appareled them with great love.

From Tales from the Old French by Various

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

The procession awed the populace, for every new-comer—gorgeously apparelled though he was—wore a grave face and a saddened mien.

From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

We watched an extremely good-looking and richly apparelled young lady, who, after she had said her preliminary devotions, looked round her as if seeking somebody.

From Cuba Past and Present by Richard Davey

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

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

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

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

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

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




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