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The definition of habiliment is clothing.
(noun)The shirts, pants, skirts and tops in your closet are an example of habiliment.
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See habiliment in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- clothing; dress; attire
- furnishings or equipment; trappings
Origin: MFr habillement < habiller, to clothe, make fit < habile: see habile
See habiliment in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. The special dress or garb associated with an occasion or office. Often used in the plural: “shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave” (Edgar Allan Poe).b. Clothes.
- habiliments Characteristic furnishings or equipment; trappings: surrounded by the habiliments of the television news industry.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English habilement
Origin: , from Old French habillement
Origin: , from habiller, to clothe
Origin: , alteration (influenced by habit, clothing)
Origin: of abiller, to prepare, strip a tree of its branches
Origin: : a-, toward (from Latin ad-; see ad-)
Origin: + bille, log; see billet2
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