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

He was covered with a painted beaver robe, so that we scarcely knew him in his fine habiliment.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Mackenzie, Alexander

Alone remains, to tell of the event, Abandoned, lost and variously rent, The Bonynge nethermost habiliment.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose