garment

Etymology

From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from garnir (“to garnish, adorn, fortify”), from Frankish. More at garnish.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑɹ.mənt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.mənt/
• Hyphenation: gar‧ment

Noun

garment (plural garments)

1. A single item of clothing.
   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:

     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.

Further reading

• garment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• garment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• garment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• margent