raiment

Etymology

Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement and Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array.

noun

1. (archaic or literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.
   Strange raiment clad thee like a bride, With silk to wear on hands and feet 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Aholibah, lines 11-12
   They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks, and over all the Lady Éowyn wore a great blue mantle of the colour of deep summer-night, and it was set with silver stars about hem and throat. 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings)
   Many men, women and children, clothed in bright raiment for the Sabbath, saw with a faint flicker of interest and surprise a very white man on a trishaw, and the driver pedalling with unseemly haste. 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 379
   We have entire schools dedicated to writing learned treatises on the beauty of the Emperor's raiment, and every major newspaper runs a section dedicated to imperial fashion... 2006-12-24, PZ Myers, “The Courtier's Reply”, in Pharyngula, archived from the original on 2012-02-17