vestures
- present tense form of vesture (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Within, were splendid altars and the appealing charms of incense, fine vestures and fine music; while from the belfreys, bells sweet and resonant called to the savages, who paused spell-bound and half-afraid to listen.
From Remember the Alamo by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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 Thornbury, Walter
Mad and crazy revelers, how ye drank and roared! but kings no more: vestures loosed; and scepters rolling on the ground.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman
The Mahometans use long loose vestures both of silk and cloth, most having hose or trowsers of cotton, and white shoes or slippers.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Kerr, Robert
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 Roby, John
