Definition of Parament

1. n. Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural.

Definition of Parament

1. Noun. (context: now historical) A type of elaborate robe especially as worn by someone in power or a religious official. ¹

2. Noun. A liturgical hanging on and around the altar, as well as the cloth hanging from the pulpit and lectern. ¹

3. Noun. A hanging or ornament of a room of state. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parament

1. an ornamental vestment [n -MENTS or -MENTA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parament

paramecia
paramecium tetraurelia
parameciums
paramedian
paramedian incision
paramedic
paramedical
paramedicals
paramedicine
paramedicines
paramedics
paramelaconite
paramendozavilite
parament (current term)
paramenta
paraments
paramere
parameres
paramese
parameses
paramesial
paramesonephric
parameter
parameterisation
parameterisations
parameterise
parameterised

Literary usage of Parament

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"... ¡n-)) ц js most frequently selected for elementary study and demonstration, as well as for purposes of research. parament (Fr. parement, from Late Lai. ..."

2. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of by Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland (1847)
"... not loving to hear her own praise.1 The community wished to have the arms and initials of the royal donor emblazoned on the parament; but Mary Beatrice ..."

3. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"For parliament we are to understand parament, ie, apparel, referring to the gowns he carries. Beaumont and Fletcher use the word paramento»— "There were ..."

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