Definition of Habiliment

1. Noun. A covering designed to be worn on a person's body.


Definition of Habiliment

1. n. A garment; an article of clothing.

Definition of Habiliment

1. Noun. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion. ¹

2. Noun. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Habiliment

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Habiliment

haberdasher
haberdasheries
haberdashers
haberdashery
haberdashery store
haberdashes
haberdashing
haberdine
haberdines
habergeon
habergeons
haberlea
haberleas
habilatory
habile
habiliment (current term)
habilimented
habiliments
habiline
habilines
habilitate
habilitated
habilitates
habilitating
habilitation
habilitations
habilitative
habilities
hability
habit

Literary usage of Habiliment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the by Agnes Strickland (1854)
""I shall fortify, maintain, and defend the noble Order of Knighthood of which I am ready to receive the horse, arms, and knightly habiliment, according to ..."

2. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"Ideas Concerning the Things in the Cause: habiliment. The attribute of habiliment relates to covering, vesture, or possession. ..."

3. Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country: In South Africa by Allen Francis Gardiner (1836)
"... of a lady's " boa " attached to a thin waist-cord, deserves the name, but which, in fact, is the nearest approach to an habiliment which a ..."

4. The National: A Library for the People by W.J. Linton (1839)
"... the Women ;" who can lie Owes some addition to habiliment? With a most finished grace ; whose excellence A plain, pure-minded man ; self-poised ; intent ..."

5. Frauds of Papal Ecclesiastics by Gabriel d'. Emiliane, Gilbert Burnet, Antonio Gavin (1835)
"... habiliment») with the mitre on his head ; and the pulpit of that cathedral being very spacious, he had several canons that assisted on each side of him, ..."

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