Definition of "wearing-apparel" [wearing-apparel]

• Garments worn, or made for wearing; dress in general. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I hope you do not intend to keep all my best gowns, jewels, and wearing-apparel; and make no doubt you dismissed me from your house in order to make way for some vile hussy, whose eyes I would like to tear out."
• "He procured from her dinners, money, wearing-apparel, spoons, implicit credence, and an entire refit of linen."
• "All my wearing-apparel, of whatever sort, that I have not been obliged to part with, or which is not already bequeathed, (my linen excepted,) I desire Mrs. Norton to accept of."