To make ready; prepare; fit out; put in proper order.
To dress or clothe; adorn or set off; deck with ornaments.
To furnish with external apparatus; equip: as, ships appareled for sea.
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Preparation; the work of preparing or providing.
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Things prepared or provided; articles or materials to be used for a given purpose; apparatus; equipment.
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A person's outer clothing or vesture; raiment; external array; hence, figuratively, aspect; guise.
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Eccles., an ornament of the alb and amice, found as a simple fringe or colored stripe earlier than the tenth century, most extensively employed and elaborate in workmanship during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and still used in the form of pieces of lace sewed upon silk.