English
habiliment
Habiliment comes from Old French habillement ‘clothes’.
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400habillement‘clothes’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500habilement
- Englishearliest quotation 1590habiliment
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400habillement‘clothes’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500habilement
- Englishearliest quotation 1590habiliment
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book I, Canto XII: “Forth came that auncient Lord and aged Queene, /…”
Every English word from Old French habillement
Today it means
noun Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old French habillement / habiliment