apparel

Plural: apparels

Noun

• clothing in general
  • "she was refined in her choice of apparel"
• Clothing.
• Aspect, guise, form.
• A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
• The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

Verb

Verb Forms: appareled, appareling, apparels, apparelled, apparelling

• To dress or clothe, especially in fine or elaborate garments.
• provide with clothes or put clothes on
• 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

Examples

• a garden appareled with greenery
• He tried to apparel his weak letters by placing them next to a high-scoring Q.
• ships appareled to fight
• trees appareled with flowers

Synonyms

clothe, clothes, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog, wearing apparel, adorn, decorate, dight, don, kit out, ornament, put on

Antonyms

undress

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