vesture

[ ves-cher ]
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noun
  1. Law.

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

    • any such covering, as grass or wheat.

  2. Archaic.

    • clothing; garments.

    • something that covers like a garment; covering.

verb (used with object),ves·tured, ves·tur·ing.
  1. Archaic. to clothe or cover.

Origin of vesture

1
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

Other words from vesture

  • ves·tur·al, adjective
  • non·ves·ture, noun

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How to use vesture in a sentence

  • B'lieves in candles and vestures; got Tim into the choir one Sunday, and now you can't keep him out of it.

    The Cromptons | Mary J. Holmes
  • Are we not all haunted by certain landscapes which come back unbidden, not as topographical facts, but as vestures of the soul?

    Thomas Hardy's Dorset | Robert Thurston Hopkins
  • Christianity was thought to consist wholly in the observance of certain holy-days, rites, fasts, and vestures.

  • They began to be ashamed of burning men, with all the pomp of sermons, ridiculous vestures, and recantations.

    The Blood of the Arena | Vicente Blasco Ibez
  • And then he was glad he had found the straw hat with the youthful ribbon, and all his other festal vestures.

    The Gentleman From Indiana | Booth Tarkington

British Dictionary definitions for vesture

vesture

/ (ˈvɛstʃə) /


noun
  1. archaic a garment or something that seems like a garment: a vesture of cloud

  2. law

    • everything except trees that grows on the land

    • a product of the land, such as grass, wheat, etc

verb
  1. (tr) archaic to clothe

Origin of vesture

1
C14: from Old French, from vestir, from Latin vestīre, from vestis clothing

Derived forms of vesture

  • vestural, adjective

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