Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
raiment
(rai|ment)
Pronunciation:
/ˈreɪm(ə)nt/
noun
[
mass noun
]
(also
raiments
)
archaic
or
literary
clothing:
ladies clothed in raiment bedecked with jewels
Origin:
late Middle English
: shortening of obsolete
arrayment
'dress, outfit'
Nearby Words
raillery
railman
railroad
railroader
Railtrack
railway
railway yard
railwayana
railwayman
raiment
rain
rain check
rain dance
rain date
rain gauge
rain scald
rain shadow
rain stick
rain tree