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What's the meaning of "vicious wealth of raiment"?

What's the meaning of "vicious wealth of raiment", especially in
"When, later, she stands in triumph over her husband's corpse, she uses the same image to describe the robe that she threw over his limbs to blind and baffle him before she stabbed him—"Inextricable like a net for fishes / I cast about him a ??vicious wealth of raiment??"—and this time the image materializes into an object visible on stage."

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These are some sentences about "vicious wealth" I searched on the internet :
Demoralizing and vicious poverty is but the obverse of demoralizing and ??vicious wealth??.
We seem to wonder whether it is the intention of ??vicious wealth?? to dispense with clothing altogether.
Pay off all your credit-card debt and student loans as soon as you can. Interest compounding is a ??vicious wealth?? killer.
When party Signal had retired, the credentials represented to the sultan, that it was fitting the husband of his daughter should at least possess ??vicious wealth??.
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Alot of clothes, a pile of clothes. or in this case a large and extravagant material such as a robe.

Vicious - too much
Wealth- different, also alot
raiment - clothes



I'm familiar with this because in new england my aunties used to talk like this.