garment
Pronunciation
  • (GA) 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 639762314 ↗, page 0108 ↗:
      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.
Related terms Translations Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To clothe in a garment.



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