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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Apparel

Ap-pär'el, n.

noun

n. [Fr. appareil, preparation, provision, furniture, Pr. aparelh, Pg. aparelho, Sp. aparejo, It. apparecchio; Fr. appareiller, to sort or match, Pr. & Pg. aparellar, Sp. aparejar, It. apparecchiare; Fr. pareil, Pr. parelh, Sp. parejo, It. parecchio, like, equal, match, from L. Lat. pariculus, dim. of Lat. par, equal, a pair.] 1. External clothing; vesture; garments; dress. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham.

  1. An ornamental piece worked in silk and gold, with various imagery, and used as an attachment to albs and other ecclesiastical vestments in the middle ages. [Obs.]
  2. (Naut.) The furniture of a ship, as sails, rigging, anchors, &c. [Obs.]

Syn.—Dress; clothing; vesture; garments.

Ap-pär'el, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. APPARELED, or APPARELLED; p. pr. & vb. n. APPARELING, or APPARELLING.]

Sense 1. To dress or clothe; to attire.

They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts. Luke vii. 25.

Sense 2. To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to cover, as with garments; to adorn; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.

Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.

Sense 3. To furnish with external apparatus. [Obs.] “Ships . . . appareled to fight.” Hayward.