[noun] [U] [formal or literary] - clothes, esp. of a special typesports apparel(formal or literary) If something takes on the apparel of something else it becomes like it.The film has taken on the apparel of a musical.(formal or literary) If you wrap something in the apparel of something else, you are trying to hide it.They have cleverly wrapped their power in the noble apparel of the law.
APPAREL
Meaning of APPAREL in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012