Word of the Day – Habiliment

•  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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