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raiment, n.|ˈreɪmənt|
Forms: 5–7 rayment, (5–6 -e), 6 rement, 6– raiment.
[Aphetic form of arrayment: cf. ray v.]
Clothing, clothes, dress, apparel. Now rhet.
c1440Promp. Parv. 422/1 Rayment, or arayment.., ornatus. 1470–85Malory Arthur viii. xxviii, They brouȝt hym thyder in a fysshers rayment. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §151 An other symple man..seynge him to weare suche rayment, thynketh..that he maye were as good. a1625Fletcher Women Pleased i. ii, Do you think to..keep me like an alms-woman in such rayment, Such poor unhandsome weeds? 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth i. (1723) 72 Provision for Food, Rayment, and the like. 1781Cowper Truth 235 You..cast his filthy raiment at them all. 1814Cary Dante, Par. xxv. 96 The white raiment destined to the saints. 1868M. E. Braddon Dead Sea Fr. I. i. 3 Bright with the holiday raiment of busy multitudes.
fig.1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 41 The masking rayment of Poesie. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxii, All that beauty that doth cover thee Is but the seemly raiment of my heart. 1819Shelley P. Bell 3rd Prol. 5 Wrapped in weeds of the same metre, The so long predestined raiment [etc.].
†b. With a and pl.: An article of clothing, a garment, a dress. Obs.
1483Caxton Cato F ij, Thou oughtest not to haue..ouer precyous Jewellys ne raymentes. 1527Lanc. Wills (1857) I. 6 The residue of my raymentes not beqwhethed. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 9 With ruffled rayments, and fayre blubbred face. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. iii. (1701) 122/1 A new Rayment for your use this Winter.
fig.1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. i. §7 Error seldom walks abroad the world in her own raiments.
Hence † ˈraiment v. trans., to clothe; ˈraimented ppl. a., clothed (lit. and fig.); ˈraimentless a., destitute of raiment.
1656S. H. Gold. Law 57 He robes, raiments, and ornaments him from head to foot. 1833Tennyson Poems 16 All raimented in snowy white. 1861Bp. G. Smith Ten Weeks Japan xix. 272 Raimentless, naked, tattooed bodies. 1887D. C. Murray & Herman Traveller Returns ix. 132 No woman of Coerlea had ever before her been so gorgeously raimented. |