habiliment

English

Etymology

Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement "to clothe".

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /həˈbɪlɪmənt/

Noun

habiliment (plural habiliments)

1. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
   • 1839: Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

     ... Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 52

     Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.

2. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

Translations

Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion

• Russian: одеяние (ru) n (odejanije), костюм (ru) m (kostjum)

Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings