Sentence:  His name is Praisegod Piepsam , and he is rather fully described as to his <WSD>clothing</WSD> and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author 's repertory - he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death in Venice '' , for example , who represent some combination of cadaver , exotic , and psychopomp . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a covering designed to be worn on a person's body