RAIMENT in a Sentence

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They seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment that had survived nearly four years of cruising.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAIMENT
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raiment
 n.  clothing; garments; dress; garb; costume
Classic Sentence:
1  Speaking she turned away, and her neck shone roseate, her immortal tresses breathed the fragrance of deity; her raiment fell flowing down to her feet, and the godhead was manifest in her tread.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
2  Hither from all quarters is flung in masses the treasure of Troy torn from burning shrines, tables of the gods, bowls of solid gold, and raiment of the captives.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
3  Charon, the dread ferryman, guards these flowing streams, ragged and awful, his chin covered with untrimmed masses of hoary hair, and his glassy eyes aflame; his soiled raiment hangs knotted from his shoulders.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
4  And now all the army was advancing on the open plain, rich in horses, rich in raiment of broidered gold.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
5  Yours is embroidered raiment of saffron and shining sea-purple.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
6  All hearts sink; Latinus goes with torn raiment, in dismay at his wife's doom and his city's downfall, defiling his hoary hair with soilure of sprinkled dust.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
7  Here the Graces bathed her, and anointed her with oil of ambrosia such as the immortal gods make use of, and they clothed her in raiment of the most enchanting beauty.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VIII
8  They took me over the sea while I was fast asleep, and landed me in Ithaca, after giving me many presents in bronze, gold, and raiment.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
9  The daughters of the old man of the sea stood round you weeping bitterly, and clothed you in immortal raiment.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIV
10  But she was uncomfortable in the presence of the amused stares which Mrs. Flickerbaugh's raiment drew.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  They seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment that had survived nearly four years of cruising.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
12  My young women have done enough," he said: "the spirit of the pale face has no need of food or raiment, their gifts being according to the heaven of their color.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
13  A person on a heath in raiment of modern cut and colours has more or less an anomalous look.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
14  When the flame arose it revealed a young man in tight raiment, and red from top to toe.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
15  It seemed to him that in exquisite raiment, and to the delicate sound of flutes, the sins of the world were passing in dumb show before him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
Example Sentence:
1  "How can I go to the ball?" asked Cinderella. "I have no raiment fit to wear.".