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array
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synonyms: raiment, toggery, habiliments, vesture ???
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Definition:attire; clothing or as a verb to clothe
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Grandmother Baxter's clients were there in gay and flippant array.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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And euery statut. koude he pleyn by roote
He rood but hoomly, in a medlee coote
Girt with a ceynt of sylk. with barres smale
Of his array telle I no lenger tale.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, p. 23
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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It was a trial to my feelings, on the next day but one, to see Joe arraying himself in his Sunday clothes to accompany me to Miss Havisham's.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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A birdlike woman in her early forties, arrayed like a goldfinch in a sunburst of yellow silk dressing gown,
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were none the less beginning, punctual guests, arrayed already for the party,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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