habiliment
/həˈbɪlɪmənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
noun
Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.
Example Sentences
- "Forth came that auncient Lord and aged Queene, / Arayd in antique robes downe to the ground, / And sad habiliments right well beseene; / A noble crew about them waited round / Of sage and sober Peres, all gravely gownd; / Whom farre before did march a goodly band / Of tall young men,° all hable armes to sownd, / But now they laurell braunches bore in hand; / Glad signe of victorie and peace in all their land."
- "She / In th' habiliments of the goddess Isis / That day appeared, and oft before gave audience […]"
- "[…] Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century."
- "Her maid having a taste in dressmaking—to which art she had been an apprentice at Paris, before she entered into Miss Blanche’s service there—was kept from morning till night altering and remodelling Miss Amory’s habiliments; and rose very early and went to bed very late, in obedience to the untiring caprices of her little taskmistress."
- "Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house."
Etymology
From Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement (“clothes”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: habilement, habillement
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /həˈbɪlɪmənt/