What is "garment"

Usage examples of "garment".

A simpleton shall wipe the dews of death, and close my eyes: and when I cross the river of death, let me be met by a band of the heavenly host, who were all simpletons here on earth, and too good for such a hole, so now they are in heaven, and their garments always white--because there are no laundresses there.

At a single glance the Amalekite saw that there was a circlet of gold about the brow, that the face was fine and that the garments swept the sands.

I sent an amba to summon Davilo, gathered the garments that Eveena had thrown off, and removed them to the death-chamber.

When at last the persecutors had discovered the hiding-place of Amphibalus, Alban, in order to aid his escape, changed garments with the deacon, and allowed himself to be taken in his stead, while Amphibalus made his way into Wales, where, however, he was ultimately captured and was brought back by the persecutors, who possibly intended to put him to death at Verulamium, but for some reason which we do not understand he was executed about four miles from the city at a spot where the village of Redbourn now stands, the parish church of which is dedicated to him.

Hands were clutching at the garments of the dazed Mattenbaal when the armored Anakim closed in around him, beat the mob back with bowstaves and spear shafts, and hustled the priest away.

Selene pulled the damp cloth of her white spencer, a sort of antebellum blouse, away from her neck and tried to blow inside the steamy confines of her garment, to no avail.

Instantly, then, shouts of laughter--torchlight scattering the shadows amid gloom--green cypresses --fire--color splurging on the bosom of the water--babel of hundreds of voices as the gay Antiochenes swarmed out from behind the trees--and a cheer, as the girls by the altar threw their garments off and scampered naked along the river-bank toward a bridge that joined the temple island to the sloping lawns, where the crowd ran to await them.

Not a very grand garment, yet when Artemisia covered herself with it and flung one end back over her shoulder, the shawl took on an allure that it had never had on me.

She pulled off her torn blouse looking at it with disgust, it along with the rest of her garments were thrown into a tangled heap upon the Aubusson rug beside her bed.

Miss Cornelia and Marilla put all the little love-made garments away, together with the ruffled basket which had been befrilled and belaced for dimpled limbs and downy head.

She begari undoing the long row of buttons down the front of her coveralls and shrugged out of the garment, then unfastened and stepped out of her underwear.

She boggles at my vivid biotechnical garments, the garden filled with our wild experiments, my companion, startling in his likeness to his progenitor.

I expect a startling new lifeform to emerge imminently, preferably a carnivorous phage that preys on biotechnical garments and their wearers.

A bird the size of a light aircraft takes off, its massive wings clattering, a shredded biotechnical garment dangling from its beak.

It is a delicate-featured image of a bodhisattva, not unlike Kwannon, in garments woven of moonbeams.