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WEARING APPAREL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wearing apparel mean?
• WEARING APPAREL (noun)
The noun WEARING APPAREL has 1 sense:
1. clothing in general
Familiarity information: WEARING APPAREL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Clothing in general
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
apparel; clothes; dress; wearing apparel
Context example:
fastidious about his dress
Hypernyms ("wearing apparel" is a kind of...):
article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wearing apparel"):
workwear (heavy-duty clothes for manual or physical work)
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