[
US
/əˈpæɹəɫ, əˈpɛɹəɫ/
]
[ UK /ˈæpəɹəl/ ]
[ UK /ˈæpəɹəl/ ]
VERB
-
provide with clothes or put clothes on
Parents must feed and dress their child
NOUN
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clothing in general
fastidious about his dress
she was refined in her choice of apparel
he always bought his clothes at the same store
How To Use apparel In A Sentence
- When apparel maker Betabrand created a pair of khaki pants whose back-pocket linings and hems could be exposed to reveal reflective fabric, it expected the pants to be a short-term novelty item. Beyond Spandex: Chic Styles for Cyclists Take Off
- Upset over being branded as a child labour employer, India's apparel export body AEPC has sought access to key documents of the US Labour Department which were used to "defame" the HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines
- This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder. The Modesty of His Lordship
- The figure enters the building and the several scientists are clad in Hawaiian luau apparel, getting ready for the end of the season party. The Movie Spoiler
- Reminding the glossily appareled Jeremiah Cummings, the head of the Worldwide International Campaign for Christ, that Saint Paul traveled with only the shirt on his back, he asks, “Should I assume that this is the only $2,000 suit you own?” An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …
- Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- There are other sporting events that honour their champions with unique apparel.
- The next chapter shifts focus to define the ‘morality’ of color, investigating practices like sumptuary legislation, intended to control wearing apparel and facilitate easy distinction of social classes in public places.
- In the mud of their complacently perpetuated barnyard pond, they assert that no bright-browed, bright-apparelled shining figures can be outside of fairy books, old histories, and ancient superstitions. THE KANAKA SURF
- That's a new experience for 25-year apparel industry warrior, president of the $10-million men's loungewear, swimwear, and woven and knit shirt manufacturer.