Meaning of Raiment | Babel Free

Definitions

Clothing, garments, dress, material.

archaic, countable, literary, uncountable

Equivalents

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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