habiliment

Example Sentences

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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

There is a time for stately tire, For frills and furbelows, When dainty humours should inspire Such vanities as those; So for stern hours of high intent Behoves a fit habiliment.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 9, 1919 by Various

The young priest stood on one of the tombstones, with the broad sleeve of his monkish habiliment over his face.

From A Japanese Boy by Shiukichi, Shigemi