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Raiment
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-m
uh
nt
]
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Origin
rai·ment
/
ˈreɪ
mənt
/
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[
rey
-m
uh
nt
]
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noun
clothing; apparel; attire.
Origin:
1350–1400;
Middle English
rayment,
aphetic variant of
arrayment.
See
array
,
-ment
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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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But there are many more wearable versions with a suitably vintage air to dress up holiday raiment.
Prizes will also be given to riders and horses decked out in noteworthy raiment.
Her first appearance in feminine raiment is accomplished in an artful manner.
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But there are many more wearable versions with a suitably vintage air to dress up holiday raiment.
Prizes will also be given to riders and horses decked out in noteworthy raiment.
Her first appearance in feminine raiment is accomplished in an artful manner.
Sambo and his family are dressed out in parti-colored raiment.
Peters, for instance, can't appear at his wife's banquet because he has no suitable raiment.
In this striking raiment she goes to her husband's room, expecting voluble admiration from him.
Others are similar to the fluffy raiment of a musical comedy star.
And he also persuaded that world that there was incomparable femininity and beauty in the raiment of crows.
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World English Dictionary
raiment
(ˈreɪmənt)
—
n
archaic
,
poetic
or
attire; clothing; garments
[C15: shortened from
arrayment
, from Old French
areement
; see
array
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
raiment
c.1440, shortening of arayment "clothing," from Anglo-Fr. araiement, from O.Fr. areement, from areer "to array" (see
array
).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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