apparel

Old French apareillier

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

apparel (countable and uncountable, plural apparels)

1. Clothing.
   • (Can we date this quote by Denham as well as title, page, and other details?)

     fresh in his new apparel, proud and young

   • (Can we date this quote by Tatler as well as title, page, and other details?)

     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.
4. Aspect; guise.

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

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