Apparelment
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Apparelment is a noun meaning Clothing, including accessories.
Meaning
Clothing, including accessories.
Example Sentences
Bishop Fisher, appalled by the extravagance, wrote, Never was seen in England such excess of apparelment before.”
Some by reason of their sumptuous apparelment learned so great pride that hitherto they could not shift it from them.
Matilda of Flanders went to her wedding decked out in 'very rich apparelment', notably a rich, cope-like mantle garnished with jewels, which was preserved in the treasury of Bayeux Cathedral until at least 1476.
The essential error in the obvious interpretation of the correlation posed by G.B.S. is that the people wearing the top hat and carrying an umbrella do not represent a random sample of the whole population of Britain and they therefore carry with their apparelment all of the qualities of character, culture, and personal habits associated with these marks of social distinction.
Word Forms
- apparelments
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include apparel, accouterment, apparelling, outfitting, attiring, trappings.
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