raiment
/ˈɹeɪ.mənt/
raiment noun: clothing, garments, dress, material.
Noun
raiment (countable and uncountable, plural raiments)
- Clothing, garments, dress, material.
- For all that beauty that doth cover thee
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XXII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC - And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. / And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. / And round about the throne were four and...1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 4:2–4
- Synonyms:
- array
- For all that beauty that doth cover thee
raiment meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
raiment in Tamil
- raiment, clothing
- உடுக்கை uṭukkai
- raiment, cloth
- தொக்கு tokku
raiment in Urdu
- کپڑے, لباس
raiment in Malayalam
- ഉടുതുണി, ചമയം, വസ്ത്രം
raiment in Kannada
- ಉಡುಗೆ, ಉಡುಪು, ಕೊರೆ
Examples of raiment in a sentence
- Whatever the reason for her old-fashioned appearance, certainly the mocking critics who are “making fun” of her dowdy clothes are only proving that their manners are inferior to their raiment.1920 August 12, Helen Decle, “What’s What”, in The Everett Daily Herald, Everett, Wash., →OCLC, page 10, columns 1–2:
- They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks, and over all the Lady Éowyn wore a great blue mantle of the colour of deep summer-night, and it was set with silver stars about hem and throat.1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings):
- Many men, women and children, clothed in bright raiment for the Sabbath, saw with a faint flicker of interest and surprise a very white man on a trishaw, and the driver pedalling with unseemly haste.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 379:
- We have entire schools dedicated to writing learned treatises on the beauty of the Emperor's raiment, and every major newspaper runs a section dedicated to imperial fashion...2006 December 24, PZ Myers, “The Courtier's Reply”, in Pharyngula, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2012:
Synonyms of raiment
Forms of raiment
| plural | raiments |
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Origin of raiment
Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement and Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array.
Words formed from raiment
Words that rhyme with raiment
Questions about raiment
- What does raiment mean?
- Raiment means clothing, garments, dress, material.
- What is raiment in Tamil?
- Raiment in Tamil is உடுக்கை (uṭukkai), தொக்கு (tokku). See Raiment meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use raiment in a sentence?
- Whatever the reason for her old-fashioned appearance, certainly the mocking critics who are “making fun” of her dowdy clothes are only proving that their manners are inferior to their raiment.
- What part of speech is raiment?
- Raiment is a noun.
- How do you pronounce raiment?
- Raiment is pronounced /ˈɹeɪ.mənt/.
- What is the plural of raiment?
- The plural of raiment is raiments.
Words near raiment in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: raiment (page history and authors); உடுக்கை (Tamil) (page history and authors); raiment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); raiment (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); raiment (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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