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
Just in time for coat weather, two local companies are draping Shakespeare plays in new raiment.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2018
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
Now men came bearing raiment of war from the king’s hoard, and they arrayed Aragorn and Legolas in shining mail.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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