vestment

• The drawing-rooms of the nobility and the upper middle classes were crammed with curios; every lady must needs cover the cushions of her sofas and chairs with some piece of church vestment, and put her roses into an Umbrian ointment pot, or a chalcedony jar. —  The Child of Pleasure
• Peace be unto thee!” His white vestment is the garment of the Manifestation and [His] brilliant color. —  Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
• In rainy weather I have seen them wear a mantle of rush mats, like a Roman toga, or the vestment which a priest wears in celebrating mass; thus equipped, and furnished with a conical hat made from fibrous roots and impermeable, they may call themselves rain-proof. —  Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific
• So precious was the memory of this man in his own day that it was with the utmost difficulty his coffin was preserved from destruction; for the populace, venerating even the wooden case that held the remains of their spiritual Father, clamored for the smallest fragment; and, though a strong body-guard watched over it until the interment, a portion of his vestment was abstracted during the night. —  In the Footprints of the Padres
• The principal vestment is the Planeta, Casula, or Chausible_; as it was shaped till within these three or four hundred years. —  Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1

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