raiment
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And can we not dress him instead in Raiment of Silk, and teach him to dance the Minuet—and, the dance over, bid him bow and be GONE?
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Raiment, rā′ment, n. that in which one is dressed: clothing in general.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Such is a habit that devours a lion’s share of the English laborer’s earnings, and leaves Food, Raiment, and Housing to shift for themselves.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu
I do not well understand how this Sentence agrees with that which follows; Is not the Life more than Meat, and the Body than Raiment?
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius
Is not the Life more than Meat, and the Body than Raiment?
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius
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