different between habiliment vs garment

English

Alternative forms

• abiliment (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement (“clothes”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /h??b?l?m?nt/

Noun

habiliment (plural habiliments)

1. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
   • ca. 1607, William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, Act III, sc. 6:

     She

     In th' habiliments of the goddess Isis

     That day appeared, and oft before gave audience […]

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 52

     Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.

2. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

Translations

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.

Translations

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