garment
English
Etymology
From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from garnir (“to garnish, adorn, fortify”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish. More at garnish.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: gar‧ment
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Noun
garment (plural garments)
- A single item of clothing.
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- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
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- See also Thesaurus:clothing
Translations
single item of clothing
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Verb
garment (third-person singular simple present garments, present participle garmenting, simple past and past participle garmented)
- (transitive) To clothe in a garment.
Further reading
- “garment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “garment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “garment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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