raiment

Example Sentences

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It was a secular raiment for a voice of moral authority.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022

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

I think the Orwell worship that dominates English letters is, for the most part, a shabby raiment, but the fact remains that he writes with exemplary clarity.

From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2014

“Ah, the governess!” he repeated; “deuce take me, if I had not forgotten! The governess!” and again my raiment underwent scrutiny.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë