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Clothes vs Raiment - What's the difference?

clothes | raiment |

As nouns the difference between clothes and raiment

is that clothes is items of clothing; apparel while raiment is clothing, garments, dress, material.

As a verb clothes

is third-person singular of clothe.

clothes

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(head)
  • (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
  • (obsolete) .
  • The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
  • * Prior
    • She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from "clothes") * bedclothes * clotheshorse * clothesline * clothes moth * clothes-peg * clothes peg * clothespin * clotehspress * swaddling clothes * swathing clothes

    See also

    * clothing * gear * threads

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clothe)
    • English pluralia tantum 1000 English basic words

    raiment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1866 , first = Algernon , last = Swinburne , authorlink = Algernon Swinburne , title = Aholibah , section = lines 11-12 , passage = Strange raiment clad thee like a bride,
    With silk to wear on hands and feet }}
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2006-12-24 , title = The Courtier's Reply , first = PZ , last = Myers , authorlink = PZ Myers , site = , url = http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/the_courtiers_reply.php , accessdate = 2011-10-30 , passage = We have entire schools dedicated to writing learned treatises on the beauty of the Emperor's raiment, and every major newspaper runs a section dedicated to imperial fashion... }}

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