raiment
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That’s how they dressed offstage, too, a little less flashy, perhaps, but garbed in Jazz Age raiment.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
The group, now with a wealthy and aristocratic membership of elite Catholics who parade in ornate raiment, has more recently specialized in aiding refugees and the poor in more than 100 countries.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2017
"The widow and the orphan, the sick and the aged, present themselves, in succession, for food, and raiment, and medical assistance," reads an appeal for contributions written in 1827.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2014
I think the Orwell worship that dominates English letters is, for the most part, a shabby raiment, but the fact remains that he writes with exemplary clarity.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2014
Hesiod says that only when men have finally become completely wicked will Nemesis and Aidos, their beautiful faces veiled in white raiment, leave the wide-wayed earth and depart to the company of the immortals.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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