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Across literary works, the term "garment" operates on multiple levels, denoting both everyday clothing and a richer, symbolic covering. In some texts it is employed in its literal sense, representing common attire worn daily, as noted in the suggestion of an "every-day inconspicuous garment" [1] or even a "coarse woollen garment" that signifies a certain order of society [2]. In other instances, it serves as a metaphor for identity and transformation—a covering of the soul or a marker of emotional state, such as the garment that carries one's inner being into the world [3, 4]. Additionally, it can imply honor, disgrace, or even physical protection, as when divine justice is described as a double garment of righteousness [5] or when a man’s dignity is announced by a purple woollen garment [6]. This versatile use underscores how garments, whether literal or figurative, contribute to character depiction, thematic development, and cultural symbolism across the literary canon [7, 8].
  1. It is supposed to be an every-day inconspicuous garment and should be.
    — from Etiquette by Emily Post
  2. On this public holiday, as on all other occasions for seven years past, Hester was clad in a garment of coarse gray cloth.
    — from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  3. The garment containing the soul is then placed on or beside the child, and if the child does not die recovery is sure to follow, sooner or later.
    — from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer
  4. While he is alive the body deliquesces and decays, and the soul always weaves another garment and repairs the waste.
    — from Phaedo by Plato
  5. God will clothe thee with the double garment of justice, and will set a crown on thy head of everlasting honour.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  6. A coarse woollen garment of purple was the only circumstance that announced his dignity.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  7. And yet what is the feeling of lovers when they recognize a lyre, or a garment, or anything else which the beloved has been in the habit of using?
    — from Phaedo by Plato
  8. The Devil appeared to him as an angel clothed in a garment woven of gold, on his head a jewelled diadem, and said, ‘Bravest of men!
    — from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

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