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APPAREL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clothing in general

Example:

fastidious about his dress

Synonyms:

apparel; clothes; dress; wearing apparel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("apparel" is a kind of...):

article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apparel"):

workwear (heavy-duty clothes for manual or physical work)

Derivation:

apparel (provide with clothes or put clothes on)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with clothes or put clothes on

Example:

Parents must feed and dress their child

Synonyms:

apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garb; garment; habilitate; raiment; tog

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "apparel" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

dress; get dressed (put on clothes)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "apparel"):

prim; prim out; prim up (dress primly)

cover; wrap up (clothe, as if for protection from the elements)

jacket (put a jacket on)

frock (put a frock on)

shirt (put a shirt on)

habit (put a habit on)

vesture (provide or cover with a cloak)

overclothe; overdress (dress too warmly)

underdress (dress without sufficient warmth)

corset (dress with a corset)

shoe (furnish with shoes)

coat (cover or provide with a coat)

costume; dress up (dress in a costume)

robe; vest (clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes)

gown (dress in a gown)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

apparel (clothing in general)

Credits

 Context examples: 

From every enjoyment I was, of course, excluded: my share of the gaiety consisted in witnessing the daily apparelling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringletted; and afterwards, in listening to the sound of the piano or the harp played below, to the passing to and fro of the butler and footman, to the jingling of glass and china as refreshments were handed, to the broken hum of conversation as the drawing-room door opened and closed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Madam, he pursued, I have a Master to serve whose kingdom is not of this world: my mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh; to teach them to clothe themselves with shame-facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel; and each of the young persons before us has a string of hair twisted in plaits which vanity itself might have woven; these, I repeat, must be cut off; think of the time wasted, of—Mr. Brocklehurst was here interrupted: three other visitors, ladies, now entered the room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I thank Providence, who watched over you, that she then spent her fury on your wedding apparel, which perhaps brought back vague reminiscences of her own bridal days: but on what might have happened, I cannot endure to reflect.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)