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