From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from garnir ("to garnish, adorn, fortify"), from Frankish -.

• (America) IPA: /ˈɡɑɹ.mənt/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈɡɑː.mənt/

garment (plural garments)

1. 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.

2. (figurative) The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied.
3. (Mormonism) Short for temple garment.

• garnish
• garrison

• 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)

1. (transitive) To clothe in a garment.