garment
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from garnir ("to garnish, adorn, fortify"), from Frankish -.
Pronunciation Noungarment (plural garments)
- A single item of clothing.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
- (figurative) The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied.
- (Mormonism) Short for temple garment.
- French: vêtement
- German: Kleidungsstück
- Italian: vestito, indumento, capo, abito
- Portuguese: roupa, veste, indumento
- Russian: предмет одежда
- Spanish: prenda, prenda de vestir
garment (garments, present participle garmenting; simple past and past participle garmented)
- (transitive) To clothe in a garment.
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