raiment
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Is not the life more than the food, and the body more than the raiment?
From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019
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 director also defers here for inspiration to Murell Horton, his go-to costume designer for over-the-top raiment, reflecting a world where clothes make the moron.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2016
"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
Then Wang Lung looked at his son standing there in his handsome raiment and he shut his eyes and drew hard on his pipe and he growled forth, “Well, and what now and what again?”
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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