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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  • The tattered train of his garment was already frozen in the crystal wall. —  Odyssey
  • At noon on the day of the ball, the twenty-five debutantes arrived at the Hyatt Regency for a dress rehearsal, carrying their gowns in garment bags. —  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  • "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
  • "Your garment is an interesting one, " he said. —  Dancer Of Gor
 

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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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/ (gärˈmənt)/
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