raiment

Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement, from Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪ.mənt/

raiment (countable and uncountable, plural raiments)

1. (archaic or literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.
   • William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXII, 5,6.

     For all that beauty that doth cover thee

     Is but the seemly raiment of my heart

   • 1866, Swinburne, Algernon, Aholibah, lines 11-12:

     Strange raiment clad thee like a bride,
     With silk to wear on hands and feet

   • 2006 December 24, Myers, PZ, “The Courtier's Reply”, in Pharyngula‎, retrieved 2011-10-30:

     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...

• Inter-Am., Tremain, antimer, antmire, artemin, matrine, meranti, minaret, trimean