Apparel

/əˈpæɹəl/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) Clothing..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Clothing.
2. (figurative) Aspect, guise, form.
3. (countable) A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
4. (nautical) Furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
5. (transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.
6. (transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
7. (transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental

Example Sentences

fresh in his new apparel, proud and young

At public devotions, her winning modesty, her resigned carriage, made virtue and religion appear with new ornaments, and in the natural apparel of simplicity and beauty.

And if there is need of any thing, such as ship's apparel or other necessaries, and the merchants desire to purchase them, they may do so, and when the voyage is concluded, the merchants may claim for themselves the things which they have bought for the ship or vessel

They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

presently entered a baron and an earl appareled after the Turkish fashion in long robes of bawdkin powdered with gold

ships appareled to fight

trees appareled with flowers

a garden appareled with greenery

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Word Forms

• apparels
• appareling
• apparelling
• appareled
• apparelled

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