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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- noun An article of clothing.
- 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
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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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"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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- 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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