ritual garb

Sacred dress attire

Ritual garb is clothing worn for ceremonial or religious purposes—vestments, robes, or prescribed dress that marks participants as set apart from ordinary activity.

The phrase emphasizes the symbolic function of what's worn: The priest donned his ritual garb before the service.

It appears in contexts ranging from religious ceremonies to fraternal rites to descriptions of cult practices.

Related

sacred · high priest · priest · holy orders · altar · altar cloth · incense · cassock · stole · cope · mitre · chasuble · prayer shawl · religious ceremony · holy · procession · clergy · sash

Categories
Opposites
formality and occasion

ritual garbeveryday wear

Ordinary daily clothing

street clothes · plainclothes · loungewear · athleisure · workwear

symbolic meaning

ritual garbplain clothes

Non-uniform civilian dress

symbolic significance

ritual garbplain dress

Unembellished clothing style

Family

ritual, rituals, ritualism, ritualist, ritualistic, ritualistically, ritualize, ritualized, ritualizing

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G