vesture
Noun
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Noun
vesture (plural vestures)
- 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.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
vesture (vestures, present participle vesturing; past and past participle vestured)
- (archaic) To clothe.
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