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- noun Plural form of
raiment .
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Examples
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Ah Yo's collection plate, closed up the hula house, and dismissed the hula dancers to more devious ways of earning a livelihood, shed her bright colours and raiments and flower garlands, and bought a
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Caught up in Abel Ah Yo's ministry, Alice closes up the hula house, divests herself of her "gala colors and raiments," bought and dispersed bibles.
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I feel like I just pulled off my outer raiments and stood revealed in my savage glory as PLOT GIRL!
irritability, anxiety, fear of crowds evynrude 2008
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Before, during, and since the president's elevation to his stratospheric altitude in the vault of the heavens, he has been adorned in an unprecedented array of resplendent raiments of praise befitting his One-ness.
Terry Krepel: John L. Perry's Greatest Obama-Hating Hits 2009
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Before, during, and since the president's elevation to his stratospheric altitude in the vault of the heavens, he has been adorned in an unprecedented array of resplendent raiments of praise befitting his One-ness.
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They buy other types of second hand raiments purchased from stores in the bohemian section of any large city.
Archive 2009-02-01 enowning 2009
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The good news is that, more and more, people are coming to see that this is the proper attitude and that your attitude is just raiments on the bigotry it really is underneath.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Broad domestic partnerships in Nevada: 2009
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They buy other types of second hand raiments purchased from stores in the bohemian section of any large city.
enowning enowning 2009
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They saluted the grocer, as they passed his shop and were followed by a thousand damsels like moons, clad in various raiments of silks and satins fringed with gold and embroidered with jewels of sorts, and spears were slung to their shoulders.
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And his thoughts were clothed in such beautiful raiments.
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