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The definition of apparel is anything you wear to protect, wrap, or beautify your body.

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A jogging suit is an example of sports apparel.

See apparel in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

clothing; garments; attire
anything that clothes or adorns: the white apparel of winter
Archaic a ship's outfit or furnishings, as rigging, anchor, guns, etc.

Origin: ME appareil < OFr apareil < VL *appariculum, equipment < *appariculare, to clothe < L apparare: see apparatus

transitive verb appareled or apparelled, appareling or apparelling

to clothe; dress
to adorn; bedeck

See apparel in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

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

transitive verb ap·par·eled or ap·par·elled, ap·par·el·ing or ap·par·el·ling, ap·par·els

To clothe or dress.
To adorn or embellish.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English appareil

Origin: , from Old French apareil, preparation

Origin: , from apareillier, to prepare

Origin: , possibly from Vulgar Latin *appariculāre

Origin: , from Latin apparāre; see apparatus

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