Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“ἐσθήν” SIG 1215.7 (Myconos, iii/ii B.C.) : (ἕννυμι):—clothing, raiment, “χαλκόν τε χρυσόν τε ἅλις ἐσθῆτά τε δόντες” Od.5.38 ; χρηστηρία ἐ. the dress of prophetesses, A.Ag.1270 ; “Ἀργολὶς ἐ.” Id.Supp.237 ; μετρίᾳ ἐσθῆτι χρήσασθαι to dress simply, Th.1.6 : καθαρὰ ἐ., = Lat. toga pura, Nic. Dam.Fr.127 J. ; τὴν ἐσθῆτα μεταβαλεῖν, = Lat. mutare vestem, put on mourning, D.C.37.33 (but “τὰς ἐσθῆτας μεταβαλέσθαι” Plu.Pomp.59) : in pl., of the clothes of several persons, A.Th.872 (anap.) ; of one, E. Hel.421 : abstract pl., “πλούτους καὶ τρυφὰς καὶ ἐσθῆτας” Pl.Alc.1.122c, cf. cj. in Arist.Rh.1386a32, dub. in Pl.Grg.465b.

II. collectively, clothes, ἐσθῆτα ἔσφερον εἴσω, i.e. the clothes just washed, Od.7.6 ; “ἔντυον εὐνὴν ἐσθῆτος μαλακῆς” 23.290 ; “τὰ ἐσθῆτος ἐχόμενα εἶχον κατηρείκοντο” Hdt.3.66, cf. X.An.3.1.19 : rarely in later Gr., Plu.CG2, PThead.49.4(iv A.D.), POxy.2110.5 (iv A.D.).

III. metaph., ἐ. τῆς πόλεως, of walls, Demad.Fr.4.