Raiment is clothing, in poetic or old use. Fine raiment, clothed in raiment, raiment of white.
It is uncountable and appears chiefly in the Bible and in verse, where it lends weight that clothes cannot. The word is a worn-down form of arrayment, from array, meaning to dress or set in order.
1nounraimentClothing, in poetic or old use.
“The prince appeared in splendid raiment of silk and gold.”
raiment is a clothing.
A shortening of Middle English arayment, from Old French areer, to array or dress.
Old French
areement
Anglo-Norman
arraiement
Middle English
arayment
English, today
raiment
Built from
Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement and Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA