raiment

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement and Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array.

Then I mourned him in black raiment for forty days. — The Brown Fairy Book, Andrew Lang
I require neither your money, your food, nor your cast-off raiment. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
That form in splendid raiment drest Is still but common earth. — Chatterbox Stories of Natural History, Anonymous

array, regalia

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