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habiliment

noun /həˈbɪlɪmənt/

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

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry habiliment (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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