Back | habiliment \huh-BIL-uh-muhnt\ |
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Front | noun 1. Usually, habiliments. a. Clothes or clothing. b. Clothes as worn in a particular profession, way of life, etc. 2. Habiliments, accouterments or trappings. [Habiliment comes from the French word of the same spelling. It's from the root habiller meaning "to dress."] At this very moment, perhaps, Toad is busy arraying himself in those singularly hideous habiliments so dear to him, which transform him from a (comparatively) good-looking Toad into an Object which throws any decent-minded animal that comes across it into a violent fit. - Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, 1908 It deepened; it purified. It lost its previous comedic habiliments, its air of shtick, and became unadulterated, lethal, pure despair. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot, 2011 |
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