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Webster 1913 Edition
Raiment
1.
Clothing in general; vesture; garments; – usually singular in form, with a collective sense.
Living, both food and
raiment
she supplies. Dryden.
2.
An article of dress.
[R. or Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.
Webster 1828 Edition
Raiment
RA'IMENT
,Noun.
1.
Clothing in general; vestments; vesture; garments. Gen. 24. Deut. 8.
Living, both food and raiment she supplies.
2.
A single garment.[In this sense it is rarely used, and indeed is improper.]
Definition 2024
raiment
raiment
English
Noun
raiment (plural raiments)
- (archaic or literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXII, 5,6.
- For all that beauty that doth cover thee
- Is but the seemly raiment of my heart
- 1866, Swinburne, Algernon, Aholibah, lines 11-12:
- Strange raiment clad thee like a bride,
With silk to wear on hands and feet
- Strange raiment clad thee like a bride,
- 2006 December 24, Myers, PZ, “The Courtier's Reply”, in Pharyngula, retrieved 2011-10-30:
- We have entire schools dedicated to writing learned treatises on the beauty of the Emperor's raiment, and every major newspaper runs a section dedicated to imperial fashion...
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXII, 5,6.
Translations
(archaic) clothing