HABILIMENT


Meaning of HABILIMENT in English

həˈbiləmənt noun

( -s )

Etymology: Middle French habillement, from abillier, habiller to prepare a log for working, prepare, dress (from bille log, trunk) + -ment — more at billet

1. habiliments plural : trappings, equipment , gear

the disintegrative process of the frontier … stripping them of the habiliments of civilization — W.P.Webb

all the psychological trappings and habiliments of a crusade — W.A.White

2. habiliments plural , archaic : necessary equipment and material (as for war) : outfitting

3.

a. : the dress suited to or characteristic of a calling, occupation, or occasion : garb , costume , vestment — usually used in plural

dressed in shabby gaucho habiliments — W.H.Hudson †1922

habiliments of a priest

the antique forms and habiliments which their Roman ancestors had found congenial — G.C.Sellery

b. : clothes , garment , dress — usually used in plural

pointed in silence to my torn and muddied habiliments — Hugh McCrae

seize a buttonhole, or any little bit of the habiliments, of the man she was addressing — George Meredith

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