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habiliment
Part of speech: NounAn article of clothing; a garment.
Usage examples "habiliment":- The body is its habiliment. - "Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science", Hudson Tuttle.
- Nowadays she thought with dreary wonder of that fascination, and had come to loathe every trapping and habiliment of war. - "The Crown of Life", George Gissing.
- He wore an old full- bottomed wig, the gift of some dandy old Brown whom he had valeted in the middle of last century, which habiliment Master Tom looked upon with considerable respect, not to say fear; and indeed his whole feeling towards Noah was strongly tainted with awe; and when the old gentleman was gathered to his fathers, Tom's lamentation over him was not unaccompanied by a certain joy at having seen the last of the wig: Poor old Noah, dead and gone, said he, Tom Brown so sorry! - "Tom Brown's School Days", Thomas Hughes.