Even nobles and princes were forbidden to wear their usual habiliments, the cast-off clothes of the Danes being considered sufficiently good for slaves.
"An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800"
Mary Frances Cusack
If former armed occupants of the old town could have paraded in their ancient habiliments through the room like a procession from the martial past, they would have found much for their attention in this scene of the martial present.
""And they thought we wouldn't fight""
Floyd Gibbons
I therefore did not allow this mishap to greatly trouble me, unpleasant as it was at the time, but, as soon as ever I could do so, rose from the floor and throwing off my strange habiliments, proceeded to finish up to my satisfaction, the work already so successfully begun.
"A Strange Disappearance"
Anna Katharine Green