garment 
gar·ment (gär′mənt)
noun
- any article of clothing
- clothes; costume
- a covering
Etymology: ME, contr. < OFr garnement < garnir: see garnish
transitive verb
to cover with, or as with, a garment; clothe
Preposition: of
- salvation: First, He cometh to his own with the garments of salvation, according to that word, Zech. ix.
Converse of object
- knit: The pig by Thomson is lying on its side, the sheep appears to be knitting a garment from its own wool.
- embroider: I can't imagine asking someone in Britain to spend three days embroidering a single garment.
- tatter: Too much of Religion has the old modernism clinging to its tattered garments.
- wear: The coat is an outer garment worn by both sexes, for warmth in the winter months.
- weave: You must have at least 2 years previous experience in garment technology working on ladies woven garments.
- dye: Secondly, He appeareth to his own sometimes in a garment dyed in blood, according to that word, Isa. lxiii.
Adjective modifier
- woolen: She sells meat, wool and woolen garments to her own circle of customers and at farmers ' markets.
- readymade: Therefore a Standing Committee will be formed for rationalizing the existing rates of value addition for all commodities including readymade garments.
- outer: The coat is an outer garment worn by both sexes, for warmth in the winter months.
- priestly: The figure of a monk wearing priestly garments appears at the feet of Christ.
- finny: She rose, holding out the glittering, finny garment, which flashed like a collapsed fish in the sunshine.
- festal: When ( with her assistance ) they solved it, he provided their prize of thirty festal garments by killing thirty men of Ashkelon.
Modifies a noun
- factory: His father was a cutter in a New York garment factory.
Noun used with modifier
- cleanroom: Cleanroom garments are designed to protect the environment from the wearer.
- couture: Her silk dresses feature hand-embroidered details that you would normally expect to see on a couture garment.
- cashmere: Their superbly finished cashmere garments convey the feel of luxury.
- fur: However, fur is no longer confined to exclusive or expensive clothing or to full fur garments.
- linen: A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus.
- visibility: When getting out of a vehicle on any dual carriage way or non-urban road, an emergency high visibility garment must be worn.
And she caught him by hisgarment, saying, Lie with me: and he left hisgarment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
Earth hath not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
If religion is onlya garment of Christianityöand even this garment has looked very different at different timesöthen what is religionless Christianity?
Stretchpantsöthegarmentthat madeskiing a spectator sport.
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being.
All flesh waxeth old as a garment: for the covenant from the beginning is,Thou shalt die the death.
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