vestment
a garment, especially an outer garment.
vestments, Chiefly Literary. attire; clothing.
an official or ceremonial robe.
Ecclesiastical.
one of the garments worn by the clergy and their assistants, choristers, etc., during divine service and on other occasions.
one of the garments worn by the celebrant, deacon, and subdeacon during the celebration of the Eucharist.
something that clothes or covers like a garment: a mountaintop with a vestment of clouds.
Origin of vestment
1Other words from vestment
- vest·men·tal [vest-men-tl], /vɛstˈmɛn tl/, adjective
- vest·ment·ed, adjective
- sub·vest·ment, noun
- su·per·vest·ment, noun
Words Nearby vestment
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How to use vestment in a sentence
This clerical vestment, embroidered in about 1300 in England, is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
On the wall hung a piece of an ecclesiastical vestment, red and embroidered with gold.
The conquest of Rome | Matilde SeraoThey are but secular things after all; the things that are eternal reach deeper than creed or vestment.
The Cornwall Coast | Arthur L. SalmonAmphibalus, am-fib′a-lus, n. an ecclesiastical vestment like the chasuble.
This mode lasted some time; for in 1538, Barbara Mason bequeathed to a church a “vestment of green silk beaten with gold.”
Needlework As Art | Marian Alford
Then just in front of them the priest in his white vestment, standing exposed, and just baldly beginning an address.
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence
British Dictionary definitions for vestment
/ (ˈvɛstmənt) /
a garment or robe, esp one denoting office, authority, or rank
any of various ceremonial garments worn by the clergy at religious services
Origin of vestment
1Derived forms of vestment
- vestmental (vɛstˈmɛntəl), adjective
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