apparel

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Old French apareillier.

PronunciationEdit

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• IPA^(key): /əˈpæɹəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʌˈpæɹ.əl/, IPA^(key): /ʌˈpɛɹ.əl/

NounEdit

apparel (countable and uncountable, plural apparels)

1. Clothing.
   • Denham

     fresh in his new apparel, proud and young

   • Tatler

     At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity.

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

SynonymsEdit

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

TranslationsEdit

clothing

• Bulgarian: облекло́ (bg) n (oblekló), дре́хи (bg) pl (dréhi), оде́жда (bg) f (odéžda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 服饰 (zh)

• Crimean Tatar: urba
• Dutch: kleding (nl)
• Esperanto: vestado
• Finnish: vaatetus (fi), vaatteet (fi)
• Hebrew: ביגוד‎‎ (he) m (bigúd)
• Italian: abbigliamento (it) m
• Korean: 의복 (ko) (uibok), 의류 (ko) (uiryu), 복장 (ko) (bokjang)

• Macedonian: облека f (obleka), руво n (ruvo)
• Manx: eaddeeyn m pl
• Maori: weruweru, weweru, weweru, ko(w)heka, kōwhekawheka, pakikau
• Norwegian: antrekk (no), påkledning
• Portuguese: vestimenta (pt)
• Russian: оде́жда (ru) f (odéžda)
• Serbo-Croatian: одећа f
• Spanish: atavío (es) m, ropa (es) f
• Welsh: gwisgiad m, gwisgiadau m pl

VerbEdit

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.
   • 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.

   ships appareled to fight

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

   trees appareled with flowers

   a garden appareled with greenery

TranslationsEdit

to furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out

• Bulgarian: снаряжавам (bg) (snarjažavam)
• Finnish: varustaa (fi)

• Korean: 장비하다 (jangbihada)
• Russian: снаряжа́ть (ru) impf (snarjažátʹ), снаряди́ть (ru) pf (snarjadítʹ)

to dress or clothe

• Bulgarian: обличам (bg) (obličam)
• Finnish: pukea (fi)
• Hebrew: הלביש‎‎ (he) (hilbísh)

• Korean: 입히다 (ko) (iphida)
• Portuguese: vestir (pt)
• Russian: одева́ть (ru) impf (odevátʹ), оде́ть (ru) pf (odétʹ), наряжа́ть (ru) impf (narjažátʹ), наряди́ть (ru) pf (narjadítʹ)

to deck

• Bulgarian: украсявам (bg) (ukrasjavam)
• Finnish: koristella (fi)
• Hebrew: עיטר‎‎ (itér)

• Korean: 꾸미다 (ko) (kkumida)
• Russian: наряжат́ь (ru) impf (narjažat́ʹ), наряди́ть (ru) pf (narjadítʹ), украша́ть (ru) (ukrašátʹ), укра́сить (ru) pf (ukrásitʹ)

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Translations to be checked

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} kle på, ^{(please verify)} antrekke