dead stock
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The website for the Billie Eilish store says “all merchandise clothing uses residual dead stock from prior productions, organic or recycled polyester or cotton.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2024
Grasso uses a mix of fibers — mohair, merino wool, cotton, silk, recycled fibers and dead stock acrylic.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024
After launching mostly with home textiles and making a splash with outerwear constructed out of blankets, Rave Review is now adding dead stock to their materials.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2024
At Manescalchi, a linen purveyor favored by the Milanese haute bourgeoisie, Guadagnino found from dead stock a collection of pristine place mats and napkins with elaborately handworked fagoting details.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2018
The most of the dead stock heretofore has been oxen, but it seems now that oxen stand this part of the trip the best.
From Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
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