Fwd: habiliment: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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Date: 2013/9/5
Subject: habiliment: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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	Word of the Day for Thursday, September 5, 2013 habiliment \huh-BIL-uh-muhnt\, noun: 1. Usually, habiliments. a. clothes or clothing. b. clothes as worn in a particular profession, way of life, etc. 2. habiliments, accouterments or trappings. At this very moment, perhaps, Toad is busy arraying himself in those singularly hideous habiliments so dear to him, which transform him from a (comparatively) good-looking Toad into an Object which throws any decent-minded animal that comes across it into a violent fit. -- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, 1908 It deepened; it purified. It lost its previous comedic habiliments, its air of shtick, and became unadulterated, lethal, pure despair. -- Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot, 2011 Habiliment comes from the French word of the same spelling. It's from the root habiller meaning "to dress." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› Lexical Investigations: Motley The exact origin of motley is uncertain, but it's likely to have come from the Middle English word mote, meaning "speck." It makes sense then that mottled and speckled have similar meanings. Mottle is actually a back formation of motley. In the sixteenth century, the multicolored clothing worn by a fool or court jester became known... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!

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