The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apparel \Ap*par"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appareled, or Apparelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Appareling, or Apparelling.] [OF. apareiller.]
To make or get (something) ready; to prepare. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.-
To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
Ships . . . appareled to fight.
--Hayward. -
To dress or clothe; to attire.
They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
--Luke vii. 25. -
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of apparel English)
Usage examples of "apparelling".
From every enjoyment I was, of course, excluded: my share of the gaiety consisted in witnessing the daily apparelling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringletted.
Then, having finished apparelling us and still chuckling, the two touched our arms and led us out, into a room whose circular sides were ringed with soft divans.
Then, having finished apparelling us and still chuckling, thetwo touched our arms and led us out, into a room whose circular sides wereringed with soft divans.
When your lordship found yourself in need of a valet, I applied for the post, being confident—with all respect, my lord—that though your lordship might affect a carelessness that one is bound to deplore, the figure, face, hands—your lordship’s whole person, in short—were so exactly proportioned as to render the apparelling of your lordship a work of pleasure unmarred by any feeling of dissatisfaction.
Great labour and full great apparelling Went to the service and the fire-making, For to the skies that green pyre reached its top, And twenty fathoms did the arms out-crop, That is to say, the branches went so wide.