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Apparel vs. Attire

Apparel and Attire Definitions

Apparel

Clothing, especially outer garments; attire.

Attire

To dress or clothe, especially in fine or elaborate garments.

Apparel

A covering or adornment
Trees with their apparel of foliage.

Attire

Clothing or array; apparel.

Apparel

To clothe or dress.

Attire

The antlers of a deer.
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Apparel

To adorn or embellish.

Attire

(clothing) One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
He was wearing his formal attire.

Apparel

Clothing.

Attire

(heraldry) The single horn of a deer or stag.

Apparel

(figurative) Aspect, guise, form.

Attire

(transitive) To clothe or adorn.
We will attire him in fine clothing so he can make a good impression.
He stood there, attired in his best clothes, waiting for applause.
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Apparel

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

Attire

To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
Finely attired in a robe of white.
With the linen miter shall he be attired.

Apparel

(nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

Attire

Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
Earth in her rich attire.
I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire.
Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire?

Apparel

(transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.

Attire

The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
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Apparel

(transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
Ships appareled to fight

Attire

The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.

Apparel

(transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental
Trees appareled with flowers
A garden appareled with greenery

Attire

Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion;
Formal attire
Battle dress

Apparel

External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array.
Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young.
At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity.

Attire

Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive;
She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera
The young girls were all fancied up for the party

Apparel

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

Apparel

The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

Apparel

To make or get (something) ready; to prepare.

Apparel

To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
Ships . . . appareled to fight.

Apparel

To dress or clothe; to attire.
They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.

Apparel

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.

Apparel

Clothing in general;
She was refined in her choice of apparel
He always bought his clothes at the same store
Fastidious about his dress

Apparel

Provide with clothes or put clothes on;
Parents must feed and dress their child

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