1. Clothing; such as, shirts, dresses, coats, etc., especially, of a fine or decorative kind: Women’s apparel is typically more varied than men’s.

It includes external clothing, vesture, garments, dress, garb, and other external habiliments or array.

2. A sea vessel's gear and equipment; such as, the furniture of a ship, masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.: The apparel of a ship in the 18th Century was a higher expense than the sailors’ wages.
3. To make o tor get (something) ready; to prepare.
4. Etymology: " to equip", from Old French apareillier, from Vulgar (Common) Latin appariculare, from Latin apparare "to prepare, to make ready".

This term comes either from Latin apparare, "to prepare, to make ready"; or from Common Latin, ad + particulare, "to put things together".

1. To make or to get (something) ready; to prepare: “Beginning in 1803, it took the Lewis and Clark Expedition months to apparel fully for its journey into unknown regions of North America.”
2. Etymology: "to equip", from Old French apareillier, from Vulgar (Common) Latin appariculare, from Latin apparare "to prepare, to make ready".

This term comes either from Latin apparare, "to prepare, to make ready"; or from Common Latin, ad + particulare, "to put things together".