Word: raiment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average sporting scrivener should step out of the press box at the Polo Grounds and exchange his ordinary raiment for a Giant baseball uniform there might be a riot. Certainly the sight of a writer's calves in the Old-Glory barber-pole sox of the Giants would arouse something more than comment. If the fans remained in their seats, content to hurl epithets and hot dogs, the outbreak would be postponed only until the scribe scuttled savagely in from third to field a bunt. In other words, the scrivener, be he ever so brilliant as a baseball writer...
Chaucer'a Wife of Bath put on her finest raiment to go to "pleys of myracles and to mariages", and the England of the days before Shakespeare was always ready for a spectacle performed by a travelling band of "mummers" before the Christmas festivities, or produced by a group of laymen in the shadow of the church. This was so universally true that an eighteenth century commentator on the customs of the fourteenth and fifteenth noted, "that those theatrical pieces called Miracles were their delight beyond all others". The Miracles were to them what the musical comedy and the "problem...
...gown is fundamentally the raiment of the scholar, and so it seems essentially fitting that the leading scholars should wear a special token of their accomplishment. Such a change could easily be put in effect at once by the Class Day Committee. It would serve a real purpose in the college as the distinguishing mark of the scholar...