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raiments

raiments is the plural of raiment.

Meaning of raiment

Noun

raiment (countable and uncountable, plural raiments)

  1. (archaic, literary) 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
    Synonyms:
    array

Questions about raiments

What is raiments the plural of?
Raiments is the plural of raiment.

Words near raiments in the dictionary

  1. raim
  2. raimed
  3. raiment
  4. raimented
  5. raimentless
  6. raiments
  7. raiming
  8. Raimondo
  9. raims
  10. rain
  11. rain barrel

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