habiliment
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Playwright Dorranee Davis has woven an ancient habiliment for his modern comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 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
Home by his dangerous path he went; Leaving, in rich habiliment, Two Strangers at the Convent-gate.
From Poems by Samuel Rogers
Alone remains, to tell of the event, Abandoned, lost and variously rent, The Bonynge nethermost habiliment.
From Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce
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