Raiment

Definitions

Clothing, garments, dress, material.

archaic, countable, literary, uncountable

Equivalents

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Azərbaycan dililibas

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Latinavestītus

Examples

“For all that beauty that doth cover⟳ thee Is but the seemly raiment of my heart”

“And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set⟳ in heaven, and one sat on the throne. / And he that sat was to look⟳ upon like⟳ a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like⟳ unto an emerald. / And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw⟳ four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.”

“Strange raiment clad thee like⟳ a bride, With silk to wear⟳ on hands and feet”

“They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks, and over all the Lady Éowyn wore a great blue mantle of the colour of deep summer-night, and it was set⟳ with silver stars about hem and throat.”

“Many men, women and children, clothed in bright raiment for the Sabbath, saw⟳ with a faint flicker of interest⟳ and surprise⟳ a very white man on a trishaw, and the driver pedalling with unseemly haste.”

“We have⟳ entire schools dedicated to writing learned treatises on the beauty of the Emperor's raiment, and every major newspaper runs a section dedicated to imperial fashion...”

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