Complete Definition of "habiliment"

English

Etymology
Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement "to clothe".

Pronunciation
(US) IPA: /h��bɪlɪm�nt/

Noun
en-noun

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

#* 1839: Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
#: ... Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century.

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

Category:Clothing

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