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habiliment

noun
/həˈbɪlɪmənt/US

Etymology

From Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement (“clothes”).

  1. derived from habillement
  2. inherited from habilement

Definitions

  1. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.

    • She / In th' habiliments of the goddess Isis / That day appeared, and oft before gave audience […]
    • […] Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century.

  2. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being

    Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA