RAIMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raiment mean? 

• RAIMENT (noun)
  The noun RAIMENT has 1 sense:

1. especially fine or decorative clothing

  Familiarity information: RAIMENT used as a noun is very rare.

• RAIMENT (verb)
  The verb RAIMENT has 1 sense:

1. provide with clothes or put clothes on

  Familiarity information: RAIMENT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAIMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Especially fine or decorative clothing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

array; raiment; regalia

Hypernyms ("raiment" is a kind of...):

article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raiment"):

war paint (full ceremonial regalia)

Derivation:

raiment (provide with clothes or put clothes on)

• RAIMENT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with clothes or put clothes on

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garb; garment; habilitate; raiment; tog

Context example:

Parents must feed and dress their child

Hypernyms (to "raiment" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

dress; get dressed (put on clothes)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "raiment"):

prim; prim out; prim up (dress primly)

cover; wrap up (clothe, as if for protection from the elements)

jacket (put a jacket on)

frock (put a frock on)

shirt (put a shirt on)

habit (put a habit on)

vesture (provide or cover with a cloak)

overclothe; overdress (dress too warmly)

underdress (dress without sufficient warmth)

corset (dress with a corset)

shoe (furnish with shoes)

coat (cover or provide with a coat)

costume; dress up (dress in a costume)

robe; vest (clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes)

gown (dress in a gown)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

raiment (especially fine or decorative clothing)

 Context examples 

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

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Give him my name, good sir, the name of Peter the fuller, of Lymington, and ask him for a change of raiment, that I may pursue my journey without delay.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I must acknowledge that I felt it difficult to picture him quite at his ease in the raiment proposed for him by his grateful little niece, and that I was particularly doubtful of the policy of the cocked hat; but I kept these sentiments to myself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Why, you had scarce gone ere this loathly John came running back again, and, when I oped mouth to reproach him, he asked me whether it was indeed likely that a man of prayer would leave his own godly raiment in order to take a layman's jerkin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Let us rest here, said St. John, as we reached the first stragglers of a battalion of rocks, guarding a sort of pass, beyond which the beck rushed down a waterfall; and where, still a little farther, the mountain shook off turf and flower, had only heath for raiment and crag for gem—where it exaggerated the wild to the savage, and exchanged the fresh for the frowning—where it guarded the forlorn hope of solitude, and a last refuge for silence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was enough that in yonder closet, opposite my dressing-table, garments said to be hers had already displaced my black stuff Lowood frock and straw bonnet: for not to me appertained that suit of wedding raiment; the pearl-coloured robe, the vapoury veil pendent from the usurped portmanteau.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)