Garment is used in business contexts, especially in American English, to talk about the business of making and selling clothes. In everyday English, people usually say clothes (plural):garment是商业用语,美国英语中尤用于谈论服装的生产和销售。在日常英语中,人们一般用clothes(复数)
What kind of clothes was she wearing?
她穿了什么衣服?
Examples from the Corpus
garment• Scabbards, broken arms, artilleryhorses, wrecks of guncarriages, and bloodygarmentsstrewed the scene.• Police said anyone offered cheapgarments should contact them on.• Do not throw any of them away: writers make new garments out of castoffs all the time.• We are new people inside, so our outwardgarments should reflect that.• Most clothes were of wovenwool or linen, and the richest people even had silkgarments.• Berda Morley, who opened the store last May, spent years working in sales and design in the garmentindustry.• Once lodged in the seams of the clothing, they remained until time moldered the garments.• The garment industry has grown by 20% in this area in the past five years.• Only two garments may be taken into the changing room.• A heavyinvestment in new machinery was needed before Ashley Mountney could offer wool garments.
garment industry/factory/district etc• For nearly three decades, he worked in Woodbury at a garment factorynear his home.• The company supplies a range of customers - hospitals, hotels, the leisure and garment industries.• She started working in the Baltimore garment factories, helping with newsletters and workerorganization.• An example of this process is in the fashiongarment industry.• Young people in service industries, garment industries, catering and shops, no longer have legalminimum rights covering wages and holidays.• Minnie had three children and continued to work almost constantly in the garment factories.• Berda Morley, who opened the store last May, spent years working in sales and design in the garment industry.• The concentration of ethnicminority women workforce in the garment industry owned by minority businessmen is a good illustration.
Origingarment
(1300-1400)Frenchgarnement“equipment”, from garnir; → GARNISH2