Obs. [a. OF. aparage, f. aparer, f. à:—L. ad to + par equal, peer. Cf. mod.F. parage.] Noble extraction, nobility, rank, quality.

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1503.  Hawes, Examp. Virtue, viii. 152. For she is comen of royall apparage. Ibid., xiii. 252. A gowne of syluer for grete aparage.

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