Meaning of raiment in English
(Definition of raiment from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of raiment
raiment
The creature's ample sleeve, falling back to show another sleeve beneath, suggests judicial raiment.
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With the touch of whose wand, rags might be changed into acceptable raiment, that is, our slums might be converted into adequate housing.
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With regard to these unfortunate free labourers, they are men who are desirous of working and providing food and raiment for their wives and children.
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In my view, housing benefit has become a raiment which keeps out the cold only in isolated places.
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All it can do is to maintain life, or little more, and real life is more than meat and raiment.
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The life is more than meat and the body than raiment.
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I would not argue, about fitting out children with new clothes if they needed them and if their existing raiment was in holes.
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His dream is alive, and clothed in practical raiment.
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No, not white raiment but in shining armour; and the strongest wins.
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I have no patience at all with that love of dogs which shows itself in the case of the lap dog carried about in carriages and clothed in sumptuous raiment.
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Although people saw that he was naked, they simply did not believe it, because they had been told that he was garbed in great and beautiful raiments.
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Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Seeing that grain can be eaten, they use it as food, and discovering that silk and hemp can be worn, they take it as raiment.
Furthermore, he suspects the stranger of having stolen the lordly raiment he is wearing.
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
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