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garnment

garnment is the nonstandard form of garment.

Meaning of garment

Noun

garment (plural garments)

  1. A single article of clothing.
    • The woman ſhall not weare that which pertaineth vnto a man, neither ſhall a man put on a womans garment: foꝛ all that doe ſo, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 22:5
  2. (figuratively) The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied.
    • The highest state in which the soul completely casts away its garment of flesh and becomes a disembodied spirit.2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 241

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Forms of garnment

pluralgarnments

Questions about garnment

What is garnment the nonstandard form of?
Garnment is the nonstandard form of garment.

Words near garnment in the dictionary

  1. garnisons
  2. garniture
  3. garnitures
  4. Garnkirk
  5. Garnlydan
  6. garnment
  7. garnments
  8. Garnqueen
  9. Garnsey
  10. Garnseys
  11. garnyson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: garnment (page history and authors); garment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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