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# apparel

«apparel» in Mova's school dictionary: **Clothing, especially clothes of a certain kind: «sports…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (apparel – uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal or old) Clothing, especially clothes of a certain kind: «sports apparel». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apparel/#m1)

2) (old) Fine clothes and dress for a special occasion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apparel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In shops and adverts, especially in the USA: «outdoor apparel», «children's apparel». In old stories and the Bible: «fine apparel», «gorgeous apparel». In The Wind in the Willows Toad's disguise as a washerwoman is very different from his grand motoring apparel. In everyday talk we say «clothes».

### examples

- The shop sells sports apparel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apparel/#x1)
- The king was dressed in rich apparel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apparel/#x2)
- Rain apparel keeps you dry on camping trips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apparel/#x3)
- Toad swapped his fine apparel for the washerwoman's dress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apparel/#x4)
- The school apparel store sells uniforms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apparel/#x5)
- «Wear suitable apparel for the hike,» said the notice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apparel/#x6)
- However, Cinderella, notwithstanding her mean apparel, was a hundred times handsomer than her sisters, though they were always dressed very richly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apparel/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: no «an apparel» or «apparels». Formal; everyday word: clothes. Do not confuse with «apparent» (clear, seeming).

### In the corpora

- ['Wherefore is Thine apparel red, and Thy garments like his that treadeth in the winevat?' —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1343/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «apparel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apparel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.