- 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).
- Clothes.
- 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.]





