Habiliment
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /həˈbɪlɪmənt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Habiliment is a noun meaning Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
Meaning
Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
More Meanings
- Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.
Example Sentences
She / In th' habiliments of the goddess Isis / That day appeared, and oft before gave audience […]
Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.
[…] Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century.
Her maid having a taste in dressmaking—to which art she had been an apprentice at Paris, before she entered into Miss Blanche’s service there—was kept from morning till night altering and remodelling Miss Amory’s habiliments; and rose very early and went to bed very late, in obedience to the untiring caprices of her little taskmistress.
Word Forms
- habiliments
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include garmented, clothed, clad, dressed, robed, attired.
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