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apparel
/əˈpæ.ɹəl/
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What does apparel mean?
noun
- Clothing.
- (figuratively) Aspect, guise, form.
- A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
More meanings (4)
noun
- Furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
verb
- To dress or clothe; to attire.
- To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
- To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈpæ.ɹəl/
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If I had been married to him, for all he was in woman’s apparel, I would not have had him.
There is a marked similarity in these respects between the apparel of women and that of domestic servants, especially liveried servants.
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Accordingly, the quantity of wearing apparel and the nursery supplies I have suggested pertain only to the early weeks of infant life.
The latter was by far the most showy and gallant figure, so far as apparel went, anywhere to be seen among the multitude.
Theron drew a heavy sigh, and let his fingers toy abstractedly with a ribbon on the outer edge of Celia's penumbra of apparel.