habiliment
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Playwright Dorranee Davis has woven an ancient habiliment for his modern comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old part of the town, fiercely antebellum, rested in the stillest slackwater celebration of itself, in the habiliment of azaleas cutting into shadows with a soft-winged blue, or a deepening ruby.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
The fever departed, and Dr. Trefusis now in health, he walked abroad, dressed in his stolen habiliment, swinging a cane like a beau of the first fashion.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The whole of his habiliment seemed of foreign manufacture; but his air had something in it that was wild, and uncouth; and his head was continually in motion.
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
The young priest stood on one of the tombstones, with the broad sleeve of his monkish habiliment over his face.
From A Japanese Boy by Shiukichi, Shigemi
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