Raiment

“Raiment” (RAY-ment) - from the Middle English for “to array” - means clothing in general.

Example (as used by H.G. Wells in The War of the Worlds): “A man in his Sunday raiment, lemon-yellow gloves even, was visible inside the window.”

 

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