clothes as worn in a particular profession, way of life, etc.
2.
habiliments, accouterments or trappings.
Origin: 1375–1425; late ME (h)abylement < MF habillement, equiv. to habill(er), abill(ier) to trim a log, hence, dress, prepare (< VL *adbiliare;see a-5, billet2) + -ment-ment
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).
Clothes.
habiliments Characteristic furnishings or equipment; trappings: surrounded by the habiliments of the television news industry.
[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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