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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
apparel
 
SYLLABICATION:ap·par·el
PRONUNCIATION:  -prl
NOUN:1. Clothing, especially outer garments; attire. 2. A covering or adornment: trees with their apparel of foliage.
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: ap·par·eled or ap·par·elled, ap·par·el·ing or ap·par·el·ling, ap·par·els or ap·par·els
1. To clothe or dress. 2. To adorn or embellish.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English appareil, from Old French apareil, preparation, from apareillier, to prepare, possibly from Vulgar Latin *appariculre, from Latin apparre. See apparatus.
 
 
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