vesture
Americannoun
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Law.
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everything growing on and covering the land, with the exception of trees.
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any such covering, as grass or wheat.
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Archaic.
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clothing; garments.
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something that covers like a garment; covering.
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verb (used with object)
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vestures,
present (3rd person singular)
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vestured,
past participle, past
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vesturing
present participle
noun
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archaic a garment or something that seems like a garment
a vesture of cloud
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law
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everything except trees that grows on the land
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a product of the land, such as grass, wheat, etc
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verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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vesturesimple
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vesturessimple
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have vesturedperfect
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has vesturedperfect
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am vesturingprogressive
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are vesturingprogressive
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is vesturingprogressive
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have been vesturingperfect progressive
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has been vesturingperfect progressive
Past
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vesturedsimple
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had vesturedperfect
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was vesturingprogressive
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were vesturingprogressive
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had been vesturingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of vesture
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
Example Sentences
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Benedict, in contrast, wore the vesture like a uniform, emphasizing his notion of the papacy not as a glamorous appointment but as the humble, humbling job of leading the Catholic Church.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
Gazing up at the stars, he muses, “Such harmony is in immortal souls,/But whilst this muddy vesture of decay/Doth grossly enclose it, we cannot hear it.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011
The music-master was a young man, thin and clean, whose bright silk waistcoats belied the gravity of the rest of his vesture, which was black and brown.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Crowds in gorgeous vesture were stalking all about, Who ne'er had worn such splendor, and scarce so much as seen.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Hot tears of wrath and malice once more her vesture dew'd.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Erelong these outward trappings, these visible treasures, these earthly vanities, these arrayed armies, these adorned vestures, these proud and overweening souls, all shall pass into the confines of the grave, as though into that box.
From The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh
The nation has stripped itself of the old vestures; patriots of the type soon to be called Girondins have the problem of governing this naked nation.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
They do eate altogether, and haue their sels according to the vse of our friers, their vestures or apparel is ordinary of serge of the said foure colours.
From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza
Thou it is who hast bestowed all good things upon the Man, and He weareth them like vestures.
From The Gnôsis of the Light by F. Lamplugh
To enjoy a more extended gaze upon the clouds, those gorgeous vestures of the sun, Constance had ascended, by a winding path, to the edge of a steep cliff overhanging the river.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
Every field is newly vestured in young corn or the olive greenness of wheat; the smell of the earth is full of sweetness.
From Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston
He was strangely vestured; silver and gold gleamed in his raiment, and a large cross was outlined upon his back.
From Purgatory by Mrs. James Sadlier
By the afternoon train came Adrian, impeccably vestured and feverish with excitement.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
"Crowned with olive over a white veil a Lady appeared to me, vestured in hue of living flame under a green mantle."
From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by John T. (John Theodore) Slattery
To the north and east are the Ochil hills, "vestured" in blue, and looking down upon fertile fields, umbrageous woods, and stately mansions.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
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