reparel
English
editEtymology
editCompare reapparel.
Noun
editreparel (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A change of clothing; a second or different suit.
- 1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- I'll tell you, gentlemen, let them but lend him a suit of reparel and necessaries and, by Gad, if any of them all blow wind in the tail on him, I'll be hanged.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “reparel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)