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Apparel Meaning Century Wear Noun Verb ə'Pærəl N.衣服;装饰

Front apparel
Pron [ə'pærəl]
Back 【apparel】
n.衣服;装饰
A shop selling woman's apparel is at the corner of the street.
街角有一家妇女服饰店。
Vocab
apparelclothing in general

Apparel is just another word for what you wear. Hopefully the apparel you wear to work — suits and heels — is very different from the apparel you wear on the weekends — pajama pants and bunny slippers.

The noun apparel got its start from the Latin apparare, meaning to “prepare, make ready,” or ad-particulare, meaning “to put things together.” In the mid 13th century it evolved into a verb meaning “to equip.” It wasn’t until the next century that people began to use apparel as both a verb meaning “to attire” and as a noun meaning garments or clothing. Said 17th century British writer Thomas Fuller, “…Apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.”

All forms of 'apparel' will appear on average once every 847 pages.
apparel
appareled
unappareled

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