garment
Etymology

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

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

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.
Related terms Translations Verb

garment (garments, present participle garmenting; simple past and past participle garmented)

  1. (transitive) To clothe in a garment.



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