Pronounced: uh-KRAY-zhuh (alt: uh-KRAY-zhee-uh), noun
Notes: Another new word
Yesterday’s word
The word habiliments means
- characteristic apparatus; trappings
- the dress characteristic of an occupation or occasion
- clothes (usually used in plural)
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1300s to early 1400s
Background / Comments
I can almost see the word “habit” (that nuns wear), so that is the habiliments of a nun. Our word came from the Middle French word abillement.
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