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raiment

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɹeɪ.mənt/

Definition of raiment

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, countable, literary, uncountable)Clothing, garments, dress, material.
    “For all that beauty that doth cover thee Is but the seemly raiment of my heart”
    “And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. / And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. / And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.”
    “Strange raiment clad thee like a bride, With silk to wear on hands and feet”
    “They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks, and over all the Lady Éowyn wore a great blue mantle of the colour of deep summer-night, and it was set with silver stars about hem and throat.”
    “Many men, women and children, clothed in bright raiment for the Sabbath, saw with a faint flicker of interest and surprise a very white man on a trishaw, and the driver pedalling with unseemly haste.”

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Etymology

Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement and Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array.

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