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)
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
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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
Friend! trouble not yourself about your lot, Let futile care and sorrow be forgot; Since this life's vesture crumbles into dust, What matters stain of word or deed, or blot?
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
Within seven weeks, now ready was the vesture bright, Ready too the weapons of each death-daring knight.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
From the castle they goe to a gate of the citie called Bab-Nassera, without the which standes a Mosquita, and therein they lay vp the sayd vestures very well kept and guarded.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
The offering of the vestures vnto the sepulchres.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
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 Lamplugh, F.
The populace will laugh outright at the curtailment of our vestures, but would gladly have seen these animals eat daily a quarter less of the lentils.”
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
On the 21st October I returned to the Kremlin and visited its churches, which are stored with priceless icons, golden vessels, gem-studded crucifixes, and silken vestures stiff with gold and precious stones.
From Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail by Ready, Oliver George
The play opened by the entrance of the chorus, white vestured and gold filleted, under the leadership of Miss Kinnaird, whose fine gestures and rhythmic movements were quite admirable.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
Here is elemental personality, in inwrought and indivisible unity, with measureless capacity for versatility, easily blending fulness of vigor with complete repose, vestured and transfused with native symmetry and grace.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
But these great Beasts, vestured in angry orange, three stings from which—so 'twas averred—would kill a horse, these were of a different kidney, and their dreadful drone suggested prudence and retreat.
From The Golden Age by Grahame, Kenneth
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 Johnston, Charles
He was strangely vestured; silver and gold gleamed in his raiment, and a large cross was outlined upon his back.
From Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James
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