Thesaurus / raiment

raiment

How to use raiment in a sentence

Batterby, in gaudy raiment, went to an office in Manchester; in gaudier raiment he often attended race meetings.

But also he saw strange, unaccustomed raiment, he saw a sheet of gold, he smelt the soft breath of ambra.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

"You will forgive that I present myself thus before you," he said, in apology for his dusty raiment.

I was clothed in decent raiment by them, admitted as one of their band, and treated as a brother.

Thereto likewise came Alwin decked out in his best raiment, and many others were there apparelled also in their best.

In view of their tidy raiment and their general air of cleanliness, it seemed a mistake to class them as Indians.

OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST

Fergan left the city with wife and child clad in new raiment, thanks to the purse he had found in the desert.

He enjoined that the saintly teacher, having food and raiment of the most homely kind, ought therewith to be content.

And we stay here in the wind like raiment drying, and the heart is weary of the wind.

What is the radiance—purer and higher than the sun's radiance—all about thy limbs, the least fold of thy raiment?

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985