What is another word for garments?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈɑːmənts] (IPA)

Garments are clothing that people wear. There are many words that can be used to describe garments, such as attire, apparel, clothing, outfit, dress, and wardrobe. Attire refers to the clothing worn for a specific occasion or purpose, while apparel is a more general term used to describe any type of clothing. Clothing is a term that encompasses all items worn to cover and protect the body, while outfit is used to describe a complete set of clothing. Dress refers to a specific type of garment, typically a one-piece item that covers the torso and extends to the legs, while wardrobe refers to a collection of clothing owned by an individual.

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Usage examples for Garments

My mother has much skill to make garments.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
To the crowd of every age that surrounded her she could only give a faint, sickly smile of recognition, and they, in deep reverence, stood without speaking, gazing on her wan features and the dripping garments which clung to her.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
With her new garments, she enters the dark chamber of the snowhouse, strikes a fire, lights the lamp.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Garments

  • You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
    Felix Adler
  • As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.
    Margaret Cavendish
  • The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
    Benjamin Disraeli
  • Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
    Loren Eiseley
  • Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
    Joseph Joubert

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