Definitions
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- adjective Poetic Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment.
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- adjective poetic Wearing a
garment ;attired .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination
Etymologies
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Examples
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All was garmented by vegetation, from tiny maiden-hair and gold-back ferns to mighty redwood and Douglas spruces.
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A child of garmented civilization, the garment was to her the form.
Chapter 4 2010
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Husky young fellows they were, rough-garmented and trail-worn, yet Montana Kid had met the breed before and knew at once that it was not his kind.
AT THE RAINBOW'S END 2010
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But you, who have opened the books and who share my awful confidence -- you know him for what he is, brother to you and the dust, a cosmic joke, a sport of chemistry, a garmented beast that arose out of the ruck of screaming beastliness by virtue and accident of two opposable great toes.
Chapter 36 2010
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I have felt my intellect lose dominion, and learned that I was only a garmented beast, for all the many inventions very like the other beasts ungarmented.
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Thirty there were at least of them, not counting other gods that were neither black nor white, but that still, two-legged, upright and garmented, were beyond all peradventure gods.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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In many a lonely village not an ounce nor a grain of anything could be brought, and yet there might be standing around scores of white-garmented, stalwart Koreans, smoking yard-long pipes and chattering, chattering — ceaselessly chattering.
The Yellow Peril 2010
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It WAS a menagerie of garmented bipeds that looked something like humans and more like beasts, and to complete the picture, brass-buttoned keepers kept order among them when they snarled too fiercely.
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Their unbathed bodies were garmented in the meanest of clothes, dingy, dirty, ragged, and sparse.
CHAPTER XXVI 2010
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He was no more sober than the crowd above which he now towered -- a wild crowd, uncouthly garmented, every foot moccasined or muc-lucked [3], with mittens dangling from necks and with furry ear-flaps raised so that they took on the seeming of the winged helmets of the Norsemen.
Chapter III 2010
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