vestiment

English

Etymology

From Old French vestiment, vestement, or its source, Latin vestīmentum, from vestiō (“to clothe”).

Noun

vestiment (plural vestiments)

  1. (obsolete) Clothing, clothes, especially ecclesiastical.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:
      As well by view of that his vestiment, / As by his modest semblant that no evill ment.

Middle French

Noun

vestiment m (plural vestiments)

  1. Alternative form of vestement

Old French

Noun

vestiment m (oblique plural vestimenz or vestimentz, nominative singular vestimenz or vestimentz, nominative plural vestiment)

  1. Alternative form of vestement
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