habiliment
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /həˈbɪlɪmənt/
habiliment (plural habiliments)
- Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
- ca. 1607, William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, Act III, sc. 6:
- She
- In th' habiliments of the goddess Isis
- That day appeared, and oft before gave audience […]
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 52
- Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.
- ca. 1607, William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, Act III, sc. 6:
- Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.
- Russian: одея́ние
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