different between toggery vs habiliment

English

Etymology

tog +? -ery

Noun

toggery (countable and uncountable, plural toggeries)

1. Clothing, togs.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     Old Sally, with her kind, mild, grave face, and gray locks, stood modestly behind in the hall; and pretty Lilias, his only child, gave him her parting kiss, and her last grand charge about his shoes and other exterior toggery, in the porch; and he patted her cheek with a little fond laugh, taking old John Tracy's, the butler's, arm. John carried a handsome horn-lantern, which flashed now on a roadside bush—now on the discoloured battlements of the bridge—and now on a streaming window.

2. A clothing shop.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

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.

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