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plural garments
A single item of clothing. quotations examples
This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
(figurative) The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied. quotations examples
The highest state in which the soul completely casts away its garment of flesh and becomes a disembodied spirit.
2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 241
(Mormonism) Short for temple garment. examples
third-person singular simple present garments, present participle garmenting, simple past and past participle garmented
(transitive) To clothe in a garment. examples