vesture
English
Etymology
Anglo-Norman, from Old French vesteure, from Vulgar Latin vestitura (“clothing”), from Latin vestitus, perfect passive participle of vestiō (“to clothe”), from vestis (“garment”).
Noun
vesture (plural vestures)
- A covering of, or like, clothing.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
- His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.
- 1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine
- It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
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