habilatory
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /həˈbɪlətəɹi/, /həˈbɪlətɹi/
Adjective
habilatory (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to clothing.
- 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham, Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman
- a small French hat, which might not have been much too large for my lord of set jauntily in the centre of a system of long black curls , which my eye, long accustomed to penetrate the arcana of habilatory art, discovered at once to be a wig.
- 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham, Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman
Related terms
- habiliment
References
habilatory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913