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abiliment

abiliment is the obsolete form of habiliment.

Meaning of habiliment

Noun

habiliment (plural habiliments)

  1. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
    • Forth came that auncient Lord and aged Queene, / Arayd in antique robes downe to the ground, / And sad habiliments right well beseene; / A noble crew about them waited round / Of sage and sober Peres, all gravely gownd; / Whom farre before did march a goodly band / Of tall young men,° all hable...1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5
  2. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

Forms of abiliment

pluralabiliments

Questions about abiliment

What is abiliment the obsolete form of?
Abiliment is the obsolete form of habiliment.

Words near abiliment in the dictionary

  1. Abilene
  2. Abilene paradox
  3. Abilene paradoxes
  4. Abilenes
  5. Abilenian
  6. abiliment
  7. abiliments
  8. abilism
  9. abilitation
  10. abilitations
  11. abilitie

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