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
- nonvesture noun
- vestural adjective
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 ( 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
LI Hear yet more of the vesture worn by the haughty dame; From Azagouc resplendent her silken surcoat came Of all-surpassing richness, that from about her shone The eye-bedimming lustre of many a precious stone.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
For light she call'd and vesture that she might straight be gown'd.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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