garment

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"I am cast aside like an outworn garment, and the garment is accounted paid for because through much hard usage it has come to look a little threadbare And now it entered her mind that perhaps there was some justice in what he said.

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  1. noun An article of clothing.
  2. transitive verb To clothe; dress.

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  • His cares and burdens slipped from him like a garment, and his spirit was filled with a blessed and benignant peace. —  The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • "I am cast aside like an outworn garment, and the garment is accounted paid for because through much hard usage it has come to look a little threadbare And now it entered her mind that perhaps there was some justice in what he said. —  Love-at-Arms
  • "I am cast aside like an outworn garment, and the garment is accounted paid for because through much hard usage it has come to look a little threadbare." —  Love-at-Arms
  • A garment (the _toga virilis_) of virgin whiteness covered his limbs; along the edge of the garment was the broad hem of Tyrian purple indicative of the imperial dignity; and around the hoary brow of the epicurean, was woven a chaplet of roses and aloe-leaves. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
  • A band of velvet or cloth embroidered in outline stitch and French knots of same shade as the garment is a satisfactory edge. —  Textiles and Clothing
 

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robe ·  tunic ·  costume ·  cloth ·  suit ·  shoe ·  blanket ·  frock ·  fabric ·  glove ·  veil ·  mantle
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French garnement, from garnir, to equip, of Germanic origin; see wer-4 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from late Middle English garment, a reduced form of earlier garnement, garniment, from Old French garnement, garniment, French garnement = Provencal garnimen = Old Spanish guarnimiento = Italian guarnimento (Middle Latin guarnimentum, garniamentum), from Old French garnir, etc., garnish, adorn, fortify: see garnish.
  2. from garment, n.
 

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/ˈgɑrmənt/
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