different between garment vs sackcloth

English

Etymology

From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from garnir (“to garnish, adorn, fortify”), from Frankish. More at garnish.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????.m?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????.m?nt/
• Hyphenation: gar?ment

Noun

garment (plural garments)

1. A single item of clothing.

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

2. (Mormonism) Short for temple garment.

Derived terms

• foundation garment
• touch the hem of someone's garment

Related terms

• garnish
• garrison

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

Translations

Verb

garment (third-person singular simple present garments, present participle garmenting, simple past and past participle garmented)

1. (transitive) To clothe in a garment.

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Further reading

• garment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• garment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• garment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• margent

English

Etymology

From Middle English sakcloth, sekcloth, sekclath, sekklath, equivalent to sack +? cloth.

Noun

sackcloth (countable and uncountable, plural sackcloths)

1. A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
2. (usually with “and ashes”, also figuratively) Garments worn as an act of penance.

   Synonyms: hairshirt, cilice

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References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “sackcloth”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN