| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A covering designed to be worn on a person's body.[Wordnet]
2. A garment; an article of clothing.[Websters] 3. Dress, in general.[Websters]. | |
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Date "HABILIMENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
| Etymology:Habiliment \Ha*bil"i*ment\, noun. [French expression habillement, from habiller to dress, clothe, originally, to make fit, make ready, from habile apt, skillful, from Latin expression habilis. See Habile.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HABILIMENT
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] A garment; clothing; usually in the plural, habiliments, denoting garments, clothing or dress in general.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion. 1839: Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby ... Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century. (references) | 2: [Noun] Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings. (references) | |
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