apparelmentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

apparelment (countable and uncountable, plural apparelments)

1. Clothing, including accessories.
   • 1962, Raphael I. M. Obioha, Beauty is a Trouble, page 4:

     Caring less to know about their conditions and their ways of living and the source of their income; they start to demand such apparelments and perfumes from husband not bothering whether they will eat or not, and in some cases, if the husband is unable to provide such needs, the wife flies away through the window and enter into prostitution, forgetting what her husband has spent on her head.

   • 1991, Archive for Reformation History, page 299:

     Some by reason of their sumptuous apparelment learned so great pride that hitherto they could not shift it from them.

   • 2011, Alison Weir, Henry VIII: King and Court, →ISBN, page 227:

     Bishop Fisher, appalled by the extravagance, wrote, Never was seen in England such excess of apparelment before.”

   • 2011, Alison Weir, Kate Williams, Sarah Gristwood, The Ring and the Crown, →ISBN, page 16:

     Matilda of Flanders went to her wedding decked out in 'very rich apparelment', notably a rich, cope-like mantle garnished with jewels, which was preserved in the treasury of Bayeux Cathedral until at least 1476.

   • 2012, H Mitchell, Comparative Nutrition Of Man and Domestic Animals, →ISBN, page 505:

     The essential error in the obvious interpretation of the correlation posed by G.B.S. is that the people wearing the top hat and carrying an umbrella do not represent a random sample of the whole population of Britain and they therefore carry with their apparelment all of the qualities of character, culture, and personal habits associated with these marks of social distinction.