garment

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

G'ARMENT, noun Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. Garments, in the plural, denotes clothing in general; dress. No man putteth a piece of new cloth to an old garment Matthew 9:16.
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