Habiliment

//həˈbɪlɪmənt// noun

Definitions

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

    "Forth came that auncient Lord and aged Queene, / Arayd in antique robes downe to the ground, / And sad habiliments right well beseene; / A noble crew about them waited round / Of sage and sober Peres, all gravely gownd; / Whom farre before did march a goodly band / Of tall young men,° all hable armes to sownd, / But now they laurell braunches bore in hand; / Glad signe of victorie and peace in all their land."

  2. 2
    a covering designed to be worn on a person's body wordnet
  3. 3
    Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

Etymology

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

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