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Chris -- 2018-04-11
If raiments are clothes, are rainments clothes that keep you dry? This is very common; 6k ghits vs 25k ghits for the original, e.g.,
Oh, and while in Leviticus they conveniently skip over the part about the wearing rainments of mixed fibers being an abomination before God.
bodyandsoul.typepad.com/ blog/2004/02/happy_valentine.html
Small creatures, dressed in forest rainments of leaf and twig moved in the underbrush.
www.lit.org/view/5085
Jesus is usually portrayed in white rainments?
www.javaforjesus.com/comment2Jtornado.html
He proceeds to take his staff and rainments from a sealed box in the museums exhibits and applies a curiously smelling mixture to two other mummies…
www.pcisys.net/~pandemonium/v&v/v&v_adv1.htm
Her rainments now purple shiny and beautiful made her look like a beautiful goddess.
www.ancientworlds.net/aw/HomesiteRoom/3739
Behold, the emperor wears no clothes, but to the self-deceived mind he is argued
to be in magnificent rainments.
www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004343.php
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Perhaps based on a tendency to pronounce the word as RAIN-ment. See confession of pronunciation at
http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewt … 5cc1cd558f
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Arrayed so splendidly in your confectionary garnments.
Another store I go to is located aprox. 3 blocks south of the above mentioned “garnment district”
Fabric lovers forum
On the other hand, there are also, inexplicably, lots of people advertising and wearing ‘clonthing’. Perhaps the following nonce can add some support for the intentionality of ‘rainment’.
You are the Princess Gwenfaer. First born to King Salomon and his lost Queen, favorite to the king and rumored to be possible heir to the throne.†Standing, he regarded her with a focused eye. “The question I have though is how did you come to be here, in this forest, under my cloak, and clad in your very best reignment?â€
She looked down at his cloak pulled tight around her. “You cloak? My best reignment?â€
Web fantasy
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