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Definition of Habiliments
1. habiliment [n] - See also: habiliment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Habiliments
Literary usage of Habiliments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1763)
"... 3 Inft. 79. vey away any of the fame armour, ordnance, munition, ihot or
powder, habiliments of war, or victuals, to the value of twenty millings at one ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... as the taste of their tailors may dictate, with suitable accompanying nether
habiliments, and on no account to allow them to exhibit themselves in togas ..."
3. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"Quaint habiliments—Portrait of a President's Wife—A Travelling Lady— Life in
Russia—A Model American Minister—A Long and Lonely Journey—When Napoleon ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"He wraps himself, however, in the habiliments of friendship, and in that garb,
supposing that he is masked, he commits the most frightful, -and, ..."
5. Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a by James Montgomery Bailey (1873)
"... but every active mind can conceive the grotesqueness of a figure clothed with
the scanty habiliments of a silk hat and a pair of spectacles, ..."
6. The Evolution of Governments and Laws: Exhibiting the Governmental by Stephen Haley Allen (1922)
""Cars, horses, elephants, umbrellas, habiliments, except the jewels which may
adorn them, grain, cattle, women, all sorts of liquids and metals, ..."
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