Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of apparel.
"You were wearing the very clothes with which you are currently apparelled."
1987, Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, William Heinemann Ltd, page 2052 more examples
She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLCOnly a few of the staff have so far been apparelled, noticeably at Blackfriars.
1939 September, “Items of Interest: Southern Railway Cap Badges”, in Railway Magazine, page 234
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