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Dictionary: ha·bil·i·ment   (hə-bĭl'ə-mənt) pronunciation
n.
    1. The special dress or garb associated with an occasion or office. Often used in the plural: "shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave" (Edgar Allan Poe).
    2. Clothes.
  1. habiliments Characteristic furnishings or equipment; trappings: surrounded by the habiliments of the television news industry.

[Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement, from habiller, to clothe, alteration (influenced by habit, clothing) of abiller, to prepare, strip a tree of its branches : a-, toward (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + bille, log; see billet2.]


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noun

  1. A set or style of clothing. costume, dress, garb, guise, outfit, turnout. Informal getup, rig. See put on/take off.
  2. Articles worn to cover the body. apparel, attire, clothes, clothing, dress, garment (used in plural), raiment. Informal dud (used in plural), tog (used in plural). Slang thread (used in plural). See put on/take off.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - klædningsstykker, klæder, klædning, dragt

Nederlands (Dutch)
kledij, kledingstuk, gewaad

Français (French)
n. - habillement

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kleidung für einen bestimmten Zweck, Alltagskleidung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - περιβολή

Italiano (Italian)
abito

Português (Portuguese)
n. - roupa (f), vestuário (m)

Русский (Russian)
одежда, принадлежности, аксессуары

Español (Spanish)
n. - indumentaria

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - (vanl. pl.) skrud, dräkt

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
衣服, 制服, 服装

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 衣服, 制服, 服裝

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 옷, 평상복

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 衣服, 衣装

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ثوب, لباس, , رداء‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮לבוש, תלבושת‬


 
 
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