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Abiliment vs Habiliment - What's the difference?

abiliment | habiliment |

As nouns the difference between abiliment and habiliment

is that abiliment is obsolete form of habiliment while habiliment is clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.

abiliment

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • habiliment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
  • * 1839: Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
    • ... Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century.
  • * 1919 ,
  • *:Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.
  • Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.