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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Apparel \Ap*par"el\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Appareled}, or {Apparelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Appareling}, or {Apparelling}.] [OF. apareiller.]
1. To make or get (something) ready; to prepare. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
2. To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
Ships . . . appareled to fight. --Hayward.
3. To dress or clothe; to attire.
They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. --Luke vii. 25.
4. To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.
Appareled in celestial light. --Wordsworth.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
appareled \appareled\ adjective
1. 1 wearing clothes. the elegantly appareled gentleman
Syn: attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
appareled
adjective: dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination; "the elegantly attired gentleman"; "neatly dressed workers"; "monks garbed in hooded robes"; "went about oddly garmented"; "professors robed in crimson"; "tuxedo-attired gentlemen"; "crimson-robed Harvard professors" [syn: {attired}, {dressed}, {garbed}, {garmented}, {habilimented}, {robed}]
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