raiment

Definizione monolingua

raiment

raiment (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 Courtiers Reply”, Pharyngula, accessed on 2011-10-30:

     We have entire schools dedicated to writing learned treatises on the beauty of the Emperors raiment, and every major newspaper runs a section dedicated to imperial fashion...

Definizione dizionario raiment

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Altri significati:

(archaic or literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.