habiliment

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Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement "to clothe".

habiliment (plural habiliments)

Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
- 1839: Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
  
  ... Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century.
Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion

Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings