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
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
Hot tears of wrath and malice once more her vesture dew'd.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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
The twenty-four gentlemen at once appeared, in long white vestures, with scarves of Pallas's colours, and the king-at-arms, bowing to each, explained to them the laws of the new order.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Each of the figures had, as the inscription said, "a writing on their vestures which nobody knew".
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
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 Richard Hakluyt
A favorite child of the household, She is robed in the neatest of vestures.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond
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 Oscar Wilde
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
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 Clark S. Beardslee
But his appeal is vestured in ideal deference.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
By the afternoon train came Adrian, impeccably vestured and feverish with excitement.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
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