?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 371 (MED) Þe rayment of þis cytee is pite & mercy, for þe tyraunt of riches which vside cruelte is pullid awey þennys.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 422 Rayment, or arayment [a1500 King's Cambr. ornament], ornatus, ornamentum.

a1450 (c1400) in D. M. Grisdale 3 Middle Eng. Serm. (1939) 23 (MED) Let eueriche of vs all enserche wel hys owne consciens, & loke vor he hanat prowd in rameunt, in beryng, or ell en any vertu þat God haue sent hym.

a1500 Roberd of Cisyle (Cambr. Ff.2.38) (1879) 285 (MED) All men wondurde fro whens he came, So well hys rayment sate hym one.

c1557 Deceyte of Women (1568) 57 Euery man brought to him honourable gyftes, as golde, syluer, iewells, and costely rayment.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxii. sig. C^v All that beauty that doth couer thee, Is but the seemely rayment of my heart. View more context for this quotation

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 67 Provision for Food, Rayment, and the like.

1735 J. Wesley Let. 10 Oct. (1931) I. 191 I shall still have food to eat and raiment to put on.

1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer xii. 308 A..simpler people divested of every thing beside hope, food, and the raiment of the woods.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xxv. 96 The white raiment destined to the saints.

1868 M. E. Braddon Dead-Sea Fruit I. i. 3 Bright with the holiday raiment of busy multitudes.

1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 246/1 It is merely vulgarity in fancy raiment as opposed to drama.

1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Two Towers iii. vi. 127 Now men came bearing raiment of war from the king's hoard, and they arrayed Aragorn and Legolas in shining mail.

2006 North Shore (Brit. Columbia) News (Nexis) 15 Nov. 6 Stripped of armour and superfluous raiment, this classical form..served as a model for the humanities until the Victorian era.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 27 (MED) Bedclothe, or a rayment for a bed: Lectisternium.

c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 53 (MED) The chapelett..was a propir rayment that they vsed at that tyme like as we may say a mytre.

1527 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 6 The residue of my raymentes not beqwhethed.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vi. sig. E8^v With ruffled rayments, and fayre blubbred face.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 105 Be thou asham'd that I haue tooke vpon me, Such an immodest rayment . View more context for this quotation

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. i. §7 Error seldom walks abroad the world in her own raiments.

1683 Dutch Rogue 259 Diomedes thus unexpectedly meeting with a Female of his own trade, with a rayment of divers colours.

1759 tr. J. Rambach Considerations on Sufferings of Christ III. v. 122 But they, when they had got our Saviour's raiments cared for nothing further.

1791 R. Beilby Gen. Hist. Quadrupeds (ed. 2) 65 The skins serve them for warm raiments.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor in Waverley Novels II. viii. 108 The gnawing usury that eats into our lands as moths into a raiment.

1853 F. A. Durivage Life Scenes 206 His poor garments had given place to shining raiments.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 164 Moses speaks of a raiment dyed blue.

1925 D. G. Mukerji My Brother's Face iv. 61 I noticed how beautiful some of the figures looked clad in their wet raiments.

1959 R. S. Brookes Dict. Judaism 213 A blessing recited on the first evening of festivals, on eating the first fruits of the season and on donning a new raiment for the first time.

2003 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 22 June f3 A rain forest is resplendent in a raiment of green, the ground thick with ferns and shrubs and moss dripping from tree limbs.

1852 U.S. Democratic Rev. Feb. 159/2 Raimentless and in retreat, the American soldier saw but in the wintry snow the pale shadow of a death-shroud.

1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 45 As though from a poor man's dwelling and the house of a raimentless wight.

1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 57 He robes, raiments, and ornaments him from head to foot.

1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 16 All raimented in snowy white.

1887 D. C. Murray & H. Herman One Traveller Returns ix. 132 No woman of Coerlea had ever before her been so gorgeously raimented.

1908 J. Payne Carol & Cadence 107 The hawthorn's out in bloom; It is raimented all in webs of white and red.

1977 Michigan Law Rev. Apr. 831 The decadence of the Old World with its aristocrats splendidly raimented to hide their fecklessness.

2005 J. C. Wright Mists of Everness 157 Within the pavilion was a dark-haired beauty raimented in a tight-bodiced, puff-shouldered gown.