Word of the Day

raiment \RAY-ment\,

noun:

Clothing in general; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense.

A man in his Sunday raiment, lemon-yellow gloves even, was visible inside the window.
-- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

Raiment is from Middle English rayment, short for arrayment, from arrayen, "to array."

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