habiliment

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[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /həˈbɪlɪmənt/

[edit] Noun

habiliment (plural habiliments)

1. 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.

2. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

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