vesture

Etymology

From Middle English vesture (noun) and vesturen (verb), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French vesteüre, from Vulgar Latin vestītūra (“clothing”), from Latin vestītus, perfect passive participle of vestiō (“to clothe”), from vestis (“garment”).

noun

  1. A covering of, or like, clothing.
    It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green. 1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine

verb

  1. (archaic) To clothe.

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