apparel

English Online Dictionary. What means apparel‎? What does apparel mean?

English

Etymology

From Old French apareillier. Doublet of parrel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpæɹəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈpæ.ɹəl/, /əˈpɛ.ɹəl/

Noun

apparel (countable and uncountable, plural apparels)

1. Clothing.
2. (figurative) Aspect, guise, form.
3. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
4. (nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

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Verb

apparel (third-person singular simple present apparels, present participle appareling or apparelling, simple past and past participle appareled or apparelled)

1. (transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.
   • 1568, Bishops' Bible, Luke vii. 25

     They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.
2. (transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.

3. (transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental

Synonyms

• (to dress): dight, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe
• (to furnish with apparatus): kit out
• (to dress with external ornaments): adorn, ornament; see also Thesaurus:decorate

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