garment
nounEtymology
From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from Old French garnir, guarnir (“to protect, fortify, clothe, garnish, adorn”), from Frankish *warnijan (“to ward off, refuse, deny”). More at English garnish.
Definitions
A single article of clothing.
- The woman ſhall not weare that which pertaineth vnto a man, neither ſhall a man put on a womans garment: foꝛ all that doe ſo, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied.
- The highest state in which the soul completely casts away its garment of flesh and becomes a disembodied spirit.
Ellipsis of temple garment.
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To clothe in a garment.
The neighborhood
Derived
constant-wear garment, foundation garment, garment bag, garment district, garmentless, garmentmaker, garmentmaking, garmento, garmenture, garmentworker, kiss the hem of someone's garment, lower garment, nethergarment, outer garment, outgarment, overgarment, rend one's garments, touch the hem of someone's garment, undergarment, ungarment, upper garment
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at garment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at garment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at garment
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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