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Definition of habiliments:
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He who would bound the possibilities of human knowledge by the limitations of present acquirements would take the dimensions of the infant in ordering the habiliments of the adult.
- "The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist). -
On the day following this, when she was sitting up in her bedroom, Mrs Protheroe came to her, dressed in wonderful habiliments.
- "Miss Mackenzie", Anthony Trollope. -
It was the practice of some of this class to knock at the doors of those thought to be better off, on the evening before, begging" something for Thanksgiving" and, by way of a joke, the children of comfortable neighbors and friends would often array themselves in cast- off bizarre habiliments, and come in bands of three or four to the houses of those whom they knew, preferring the same request.
- "Old New England Traits", Anonymous.