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ves⋅ture

  [ves-cher] noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.
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–noun
1. Law.
a. everything growing on and covering the land, with the exception of trees.
b. any such covering, as grass or wheat.
2. Archaic.
a. clothing; garments.
b. something that covers like a garment; covering.
–verb (used with object)
3. Archaic. to clothe or cover.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < AF; OF vesteure < VL *vestītūra, equiv. to L vestīt(us), ptp. of vestīre (see vest ) + -ūra -ure

Related forms:
ves⋅tur⋅al, adjective
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ves·ture   (věs'chər)   
n.  
  1. Clothing; apparel.
  2. Something that covers or cloaks: hills in a vesture of mist.
tr.v.   ves·tured, ves·tur·ing, ves·tures
To cover with vesture; clothe.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *vestītūra, from Latin vestītus, past participle of vestīre, to clothe, from vestis, garment; see vest.]
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Vesture

Ves"ture\ (?; 135), n. [OF. vesture, vesteure, F. v[^e]ture, LL. vestitura, from L. vestire to clothe, dress. See Vest, v. t., and cf. Vestiture.]

1. A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope. --Piers Plowman.

Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem. --Milton.

Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. --Bentley.

There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. --Pope.

2. (O. Eng. Law) (a) The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre. (b) Seizin; possession.
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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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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