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Word of the Day – Habiliment

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  •  Noun: Habiliment (archaic and usual use is plural)
    1. Plural: characteristic apparatus; trappings
    2. The dress characteristic of an occupation or occasion – usually in the plural
    3. Clothes – usually in the plural
  • Synonyms:
    1. apparel
    2. attire
    3. clothes
    4. dress
    5. garb
    6. gown
    7. trappings
  • Usage:

“Behind this figure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leaping flames; great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the polished brass andirons whose flicker shone upon the superb habiliments of the lonely tenant of the room, which was illumined grandly by twin candelabra rich with wax-lights.”

  • Encountered:

While reading Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

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Quote for the Day – Joseph Heller

“It was the despair of Lieutenant Scheisskopf’s life to be chained to a woman who was incapable of looking beyond her own dirty, sexual desires to the titanic struggles for the unattainable in which noble man could become heroically engaged.

‘Why don’t you ever whip me?’ she pouted one night.

‘Because I haven’t the time,’ he snapped at her impatiently. ‘I haven’t the time. Don’t you know there’s a parade going on?’”  ~~ From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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