habilatory

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /həˈbɪlətəɹi/, /həˈbɪlətɹi/

Adjective

habilatory (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to clothing.
   • 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham, Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman:

     a small French hat, which might not have been much too large for my lord of set jauntily in the centre of a system of long black curls , which my eye, long accustomed to penetrate the arcana of habilatory art, discovered at once to be a wig.

Related terms

• habiliment

References

“habilatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.