vesture

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noun

Law.

everything growing on and covering the land, with the exception of trees.

any such covering, as grass or wheat.

Archaic.

clothing; garments.

something that covers like a garment; covering.

verb (used with object)

Archaic. to clothe or cover.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French vesteure < Vulgar Latin *vestītūra, equivalent to Latin vestīt(us), past participle of vestīre (see vest) + -ūra -ure

Related forms

ves·tur·al, adjective

non·ves·ture, noun

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vesture (ˈvɛstʃə)

—n
1.	archaic a garment or something that seems like a garment: a vesture of cloud
2.	law
	a. everything except trees that grows on the land
	b. a product of the land, such as grass, wheat, etc

—vb
3.	archaic (tr) to clothe

[C14: from Old French, from vestir, from Latin vestīre, from vestis clothing]

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—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

vesture

c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. vesture, from V.L. *vestitura "vestments, clothing," from L. vestivus, pp. of vestire "to clothe" (see wear).

Example sentences

He played long, losing himself, finding a melodious vesture for his half-formed

dream.

Nature here offers herself to his contemplation clothed in the splendid vesture

of tropical vegetation.

The company manufactures and sells liturgical vesture for clergy and churches.

If you look at it, a lot of the ways that this is done hasn't changed since the

time of the vesture.

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"There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls,
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."

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