Reverse Dictionary: GARMENT

(also see CLOTHES)

ADJECTIVES
1200 — SITTING of garments or articles of apparel: fitting well or closely to the body → obs.
1656 AMICTED clothed or covered with a garment → obs.
1712 SUCCINCT of garments: not ample or full; close-fitting, scant → arch. or poetic
1827HABILATORY pertaining to clothing or garments; having reference to dressing; wearing clothes
1980 SALTY of a garment: well-worn, ‘lived-in’ → sl.


NOUNS
..700 — RAIL a garment, dress, mantle, cloak → obs.
..893 — HACKLE a cloak, mantle, outer garment → obs.
..950 — OVERSLOP an outer garment; a loose, upper garment; a cassock or gown → obs.
1000 — I-WEDE an item of clothing; a garment; also, a piece of armour → obs.
1225 — HATER → HATTER a garment, a vestment → obs.
1477 — HABITS clothes, garments
1483 — RAIMENT an article of clothing, a garment, a dress → obs.
1491 — HABILIMENTS the apparel, vestments, or garments appropriate to any office or occasion; also applied jocularly or grandiloquently to ordinary clothes
1553 — TIREMENTS articles of attire; garments, or ornaments as a whole → obs.
1573 — LAPPET a loose or overlapping part of a garment, forming a flap or fold
1593 — CASES clothes, garments → obs.
1676 — LURRIES clothes, garments → sl. obs.
1701 — BULEMENTS garments → Sc.
1719 — ABULZIEMENTS garments → Sc.
1724 — HABIT a garment; a gown or robe → arch.
1768 — HAVINGS dress, garments → Sc.
1787 — HAP a covering or wrap of any kind; a coverlet, a rug; a thick outer garment, dress, clothing → Sc. & Eng. dial.
..19C — WAT an outer garment → Sc.
1801 — TATTERWALLOPS rags, tatters, torn, flapping clothing; shreds in general; a ragged garment → Sc.
.M19 — RAG ALLEY the garment industry → sl.
.M19 — RAG FAIR the garment industry → sl.
.M19 — RAG TRADE the garment industry → sl.
1853 — HARNESS clothing, dress, garments; esp. a uniform → Amer. dial.
1866 — WALGAN an ill-fitting garment, frequently dirty → Sc.
1873 — HABS clothes, garments → Sc.
1873 — VENT the wrist of a shirt; any opening in a garment → Eng. dial.
1880 — WAFTURE the waving or undulation of a garment
1890 — TAPERLAURICHAN any odd or grotesque garment or piece of apparel → Sc. obs.
1892 — LACKIE a clout, a rag; a contemptuous name for a garment → Sc.
1894 — NUMBER a garment; an article of clothing → sl.
..L19 — TAILOR-MADE a personally tailored garment → US sl.
1927 — GOMMUX garments → Amer. dial.
1928 — BOLUMENTS other garments, generally of a ragged or ridiculous type → Sc.
1928 — ON-DRAW a garment worn only on occasions, or to go out of doors → Sc.
1930 — PALLION a big, unwieldy article of cloth or clothing; a clumsy, old-fashioned garment; a bundle of clothes; one who is wears a lot of clothes → Sc.
1938 — DRAPE a garment → sl. orig. US jazz usage


VERBS
1547 — VENT to trim the openings or slits of a garment → obs.
1808 — WAMFLE to go about with flapping garments; of garments, etc.: to flap, to flutter in the wind → Sc.