This week’s theme
Words formed by dialectal pronunciation

This week’s words
ornery
passel
sassy
tarnal
raiment

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(RAY-muhnt)

MEANING:

noun: Clothing.

ETYMOLOGY:

Alteration of arrayment, from array, from Old French arrayer (to array). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reidh- (to ride), which also gave us ride, raid, road, and ready. Earliest documented use: 1425.

USAGE:

“I wear this raiment while working at my desk.”
Tom Wolfe; My Favorite Thing; Esquire (New York); Sep 2016.

See more usage examples of raiment in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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