apparel (aparel)

[Early mod. E. also aparel, a parrel, etc., and parel, parrell, etc., anchors, guns, etc. IMG:content-0972.png:[blocks in formation] em Tatler . 4. Eccles., an ornament of the alb and amice, found as a simple fringe or colored stripe earlier than the tenth century, most extensively ployed and elaborate in workmanship during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and still used in the form of pieces of lace sewed upon silk. The apparels of the alb are either oblong quadrangular patches on the wrists and on the skirt before and behind, or bands completely encircling the skirt and wrists. The apparel of the amice is on the outside part, which is turned down like a collar. It was often in orphrey work adorned with precious stones so disposed as to form sacred emblems. =Syn. 3. Raiment, costume, attire, clothes, garb, habiliments. Part of the Apparel of the Alb of Becket, in the cat he dral of Sens, France. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. du Mobilier français.")