apparel
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EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
apparel (countable and uncountable, plural apparels)
- Clothing.
- 1656, John Denham, The Destruction of Troy:
- fresh in his new apparel, proud and young
- (figuratively) Aspect, guise, form.
- August 13, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 54
- 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.
- August 13, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 54
- A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
- (nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
- 1871, Travis Twiss, Black Book of the Admiralty
- 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
- 1871, Travis Twiss, Black Book of the Admiralty
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:clothing
TranslationsEdit
clothing
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VerbEdit
apparel (third-person singular simple present apparels, present participle appareling or apparelling, simple past and past participle appareled or apparelled)
- (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.
- 1881, Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
- presently entered a baron and an earl appareled after the Turkish fashion in long robes of bawdkin powdered with gold
- 1568, Bishops' Bible, Luke vii. 25
- (transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
- ships appareled to fight
- (transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental
- trees appareled with flowers
- a garden appareled with greenery
SynonymsEdit
- (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
TranslationsEdit
to furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out
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to dress or clothe
to deck
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