appliqué
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Gallina, 75, was clad in a floor-length dark green striped appliqué jacket and clutching a paper ticket when she declared the Olympics to be a nuisance that has “nothing to do with Milan’s essence.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Cloth stars and helping hands are stitched onto appliqué hats in both Benin and Vietnam.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023
Originally, the patterns were inspired by traditional body painting, translated into colorful textiles in reverse appliqué worn as panels on women’s blouses.
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2022
“Nevertheless, the black appliqué still draws attention and makes her stand apart from everybody else.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2022
Miss Gray, the art mistress, taught the girls to design their own patterns, and had obtained some pretty results in appliqué and Oriental work.
From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Brazil, Angela
Vocabulary lists containing appliqué
Internment
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"The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol
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English Words Derived from French, List 11
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