vesture
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Etymology
From Middle English vesture (noun) and vesturen (verb), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French vesteüre, from Vulgar Latin vestītūra (“clothing”), from Latin vestītus, perfect passive participle of vestiō (“to clothe”), from vestis (“garment”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈvɛstjʊə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
vesture (plural vestures)
- A covering of, or like, clothing.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- 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.
Verb
vesture (third-person singular simple present vestures, present participle vesturing, simple past and past participle vestured)
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