Meaning of Habiliment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
2. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

Equivalents

Examples

“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 armes to sownd, / But now they laurell braunches bore in hand; / Glad signe of victorie and peace in all their land⟳.”

“She / In th' habiliments of the goddess Isis / That day appeared, and oft before gave audience […]”

“[…] 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.”

“Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like⟳ the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close⟳ up to the house.”

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