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garment

/ˈɡɑɹmənt/ noun B1
  1. A single article of clothing.
  2. The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied. (figuratively)

Plural garments

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A red handkerchief encircled his gray head; torn and filthy garments covered his large bony limbs, which seemed as though, like those of a skeleton, they would rattle as he walked; and the hand with which he leaned upon the young man’s shoulder, and which was the first thing Andrea saw, seemed of gigantic size.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 680 · C1
You provide wool to make garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him who feeds you.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 91 · B2
The Traveler no sooner felt his genial rays than he took off one garment after another, and at last, fairly overcome with heat, undressed and bathed in a stream that lay in his path.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 83 · B2
With a sob she hastily discarded her garments, put on the skimpy nightgown and sprang into bed where she burrowed face downward into the pillow and pulled the clothes over her head.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 35 · C1

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