wearing apparel


noun
  1. clothing; garments.

Origin of wearing apparel

1
First recorded in 1610–20

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How to use wearing apparel in a sentence

  • wearing apparel, furniture, jewelry, even legal expenses incurred in regaining her conjugal rights have been included.

  • Some half-decayed pieces of cloth and portions of wearing apparel were still lying in it.

  • Shortly there appeared a youngish man, constructed by nature to adorn wearing apparel.

    Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington Kelland
  • The plates and knives for dinner, a silver spoon or two, and their articles of wearing apparel.

    Newton Forster | Captain Frederick Marryat
  • Here they found several old articles of wearing apparel and a few newspapers.

    The Rover Boys on the Farm | Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)