habiliment

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Firemen in curious habiliment, and half-accoutred artillerymen, at the alarm peal's call are rallying to their stations, as if some devouring element, about to break over the city, demanded their strongest arm; while eager and confused heads, protruded from green, masking shutters, and in terror, would know whither lies the scene of the outbreak.

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  1. noun The special dress or garb associated with an occasion or office. Often used in the plural: "shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave” (Edgar Allan Poe).
  2. noun Clothes.
  3. noun Characteristic furnishings or equipment; trappings: surrounded by the habiliments of the television news industry.

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  • Articles worn to cover the body: apparel, attire, clothes, dress, garment, habiliment, raiment. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • How are we to know that the articles found in the drawers were not all these drawers had originally contained Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter lived an exceedingly retired life - saw no company - seldom went out - had little use for numerous changes of habiliment. —  krimiblog.de
  • But, having put on an entirely new habiliment, and it being the season when horses are beginning to do the same, he deemed it prudent to travel on foot. —  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
  • Christen Mitchell stated that 'Sathan apperit to the in the lyknes of a littill crippill man'; and Marion Grant gave evidence that 'the Deuill, quhom thow callis thy god, apperit to thee in ane gryte man his licknes, in silkin abuilzeament [habiliment], withe ane quhyt candill in his hand'. —  The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
  • In winter he covered himself with a buffalo coat that had areas of bare hide worn through the fur; in summer his favorite habiliment was a linen duster. —  The Story of Cooperstown
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  1. Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement, from habiller, to clothe, alteration (influenced by habit, clothing) of abiller, to prepare, strip a tree of its branches : a-, toward (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + bille, log; see billet2.

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  1. Formerly also abiliment (and by apheresis biliment, q. v.); from Middle English habilyment, from Old French habillement (Middle Latin habilimentum, habilamentum), from habiller, dress, clothe, from habile, able, ready, fit: see habile.
 

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