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vesture
[ ves-cher ]
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.
vesture
/ ˈvɛstʃə /
noun
- archaic.a garment or something that seems like a garment
a vesture of cloud
- law
- everything except trees that grows on the land
- a product of the land, such as grass, wheat, etc
verb
- archaic.tr to clothe
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Derived Forms
- ˈvestural, adjective
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Other Words From
- vestur·al adjective
- non·vesture noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vesture1
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Example Sentences
Wrapped in their fiery vesture and shroud of flame, they yet exulted in their glorious victory.
At the moment of the Revolution everyone, according to his aspirations, dressed the new belief in a different rational vesture.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
They have to hope: they have to believe that as a vesture they shall be changed, and that the new will be better than the old.
He was looking through and beyond them, at the vesture, ragged and soaked with blood, which so indubitably wanted changing.
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