apparel

Etymology

Old French apareillier

noun

1. Clothing.
2. (figurative) Aspect, guise, form.
3. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
4. (nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
   And if there is need of any thing, such as ship's apparel or other necessaries, and the merchants desire to purchase them, they may do so, and when the voyage is concluded, the merchants may claim for themselves the things which they have bought for the ship or vessel 1871, Travis Twiss, Black Book of the Admiralty

verb

1. (transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.
   They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. 1568, Bishops' Bible, Luke vii. 25
   presently entered a baron and an earl appareled after the Turkish fashion in long robes of bawdkin powdered with gold 1881, Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
2. (transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
   ships appareled to fight
3. (transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental
   trees appareled with flowers
   a garden appareled with greenery