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habiliments

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ha·bil·i·ment  (h-bl-mnt)
n.
1.
a. The special dress or garb associated with an occasion or office. Often used in the plural: "shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave" (Edgar Allan Poe).
b. Clothes.
2. habiliments Characteristic furnishings or equipment; trappings: surrounded by the habiliments of the television news industry.
[Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement, from habiller, to clothe, alteration (influenced by habit, clothing) of abiller, to prepare, strip a tree of its branches : a-, toward (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + bille, log; see billet2.]
habiliments
Noun, pl
Old-fashioned clothes [Old French habillement]
habiliments
clothing, especially for professional, ceremonial, or other special purposes.
See also: Clothing


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"Child of levity and scoffing," replied the other; "you err again, misled by these humble habiliments.
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Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.
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It was the body of an old man, gorgeously arrayed in the habiliments of a rajah, wearing, as in life, a turban embroidered with pearls, a robe of tissue of silk and gold, a scarf of cashmere sewed with diamonds, and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo prince.
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