reparel
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare reapparel.
Noun
[edit]reparel (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A change of clothing; a spare
- 1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- I'll tell you, gentlemen, let them but lend him a suit of reparel and necessaries and, by Gad, if any of them all blow wind in the tail on him, I'll be hanged.
References
[edit]- “reparel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.