raiment
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English
Etymology
Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement and Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪ.mənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪmənt
Noun
raiment (countable and uncountable, plural raiments)
- (archaic or literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XXII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. , London: By G Eld for T T and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- For all that beauty that doth cover thee
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart
- 1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Revelation 4:2–4:
- And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. / And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. / And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
- 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Aholibah, lines 11-12:
- Strange raiment clad thee like a bride,
With silk to wear on hands and feet
- 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings):
- They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks, and over all the Lady Éowyn wore a great blue mantle of the colour of deep summer-night, and it was set with silver stars about hem and throat.
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 379:
- Many men, women and children, clothed in bright raiment for the Sabbath, saw with a faint flicker of interest and surprise a very white man on a trishaw, and the driver pedalling with unseemly haste.
- 2006 December 24, PZ Myers, “The Courtier's Reply”, in Pharyngula, archived from the original on 17 February 2012:
- We have entire schools dedicated to writing learned treatises on the beauty of the Emperor's raiment, and every major newspaper runs a section dedicated to imperial fashion...
Translations
(archaic) clothing