habiliment • \huh-BILL-uh-munt\ • noun
1 plural : characteristic apparatus : trappings
2 a : the dress characteristic of an occupation or occasion -- usually used in plural *b : clothes -- usually used in plural
Example sentence:
"His own figure, in spite of his mean habiliments, assumed an air of state and grandeur." (Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance)
Long and Winding
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