habilatory
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[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]habilatory (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to clothing.
- 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham, Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman:
- a small French hat, which might not have been much too large for my lord of set jauntily in the centre of a system of long black curls , which my eye, long accustomed to penetrate the arcana of habilatory art, discovered at once to be a wig.
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[edit]References
[edit]“habilatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.