Apparel vs Clothes - What's the difference?
apparel | clothes |
clothing
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* Tatler
A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
(nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
To dress or clothe; to attire.
To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.
(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
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The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
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As nouns the difference between apparel and clothes
is that apparel is clothing while clothes is items of clothing; apparel.As verbs the difference between apparel and clothes
is that apparel is to furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out while clothes is third-person singular of clothe.apparel
English
Noun
- fresh in his new apparel , proud and young
- At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- Ships . . . appareled to fight. --Hayward.
- They which are gorgeously appareled , and live delicately, are in kings' courts. --Luke vii. 25.
clothes
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(head)citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
- She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .