habiliment

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habiliment

  • /həˈbɪlɪmənt/ US

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From Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement (“clothes”).

noun habiliments · abiliment

  1. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion. Forth came that auncient Lord and aged Queene, / Arayd in antique robes downe to the ground, / And sad habiliments right well beseene; / A noble crew about them waited round / Of sage and sober Peres, all gravely gownd; / Whom farre before did march a goodly band / Of tall young men,° all hable arme
  2. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

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noun Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion

Русскийодея́ние odejánije, костю́м kostjúm

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@misc{habiliment_2026,
  title = {habiliment},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/habiliment},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}