Raiment

English

Noun

Raiment (plural Raiments)

1. (archaic or literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.
   • William Shakespeare

     For all that beauty that doth cover thee

     Is but the seemly raiment of my heart

   • 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Aholibah, lines 11-12

     Strange raiment clad thee like a bride,

     With silk to wear on hands and feet

Adjectives for Raiment

snowy; gallant; gay; flying; shining; sumptuous; predestined; scanty.

Verbs for Raiment

admire—; cast off—; divest of—; don—; perk—; remove—; strip of—; swaddle in—; —clothes; —covers; —drapes; —enrobes; —flatters; —laps; —mantles; —muffles; —sheathes.

Thesaurus

apparel, array, attire, bedeck, bedizenment, bedrape, bundle up, clad, clothe, clothes, clothing, costume, deck, dight, drape, drapery, dress, dressing, dud, duds, enclothe, endue, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, frock, garb, garment, garments, gear, gown, guise, habiliment, habiliments, habilitate, habit, invest, investiture, investment, lap, linen, muffle up, rag, rag out, rags, robe, robes, sheathe, shroud, sportswear, style, swaddle, swathe, things, threads, tire, togs, toilette, trim, vestment, vesture, wear, wearing apparel, wrap, wrap up

Etymology

Aphetized from arrayment.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɹeɪmənt/

Anagrams

• artemin
• minaret