vesture

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Noun

vesture (plural vestures)

1. A covering of, or like, clothing.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.

   • 1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine

     It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.

Verb

vesture (vestures, present participle vesturing; past and past participle vestured)

1. (archaic) To clothe.

Related terms

• invest
• vest
• vestibule
• vestment

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