ap·par·el (ə-păr'əl)
n.

1. Clothing, especially outer garments; attire.
2. A covering or adornment: trees with their apparel of foliage.

tr.v., -eled, or -elled, -el·ing, or -el·ling, -els, or -els.

1. To clothe or dress.
2. To adorn or embellish.

[Middle English appareil, from Old French apareil, preparation, from apareillier, to prepare, possibly from Vulgar Latin *appariculāre, from Latin apparāre. See apparatus.]

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