vestment

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In the sanctity of her chamber, the exhausted young Englishwoman bared her soul to this wise, sympathetic young woman in Persian vestment Genevra," she said solemnly, in the end, "take warning from my example.

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  1. noun A garment, especially a robe or gown worn as an indication of office or state.
  2. noun Ecclesiastical Any of the ritual robes worn by members of the clergy, acolytes, or other assistants at services or rites, especially a garment worn at the celebration of the Eucharist.

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  • 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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  1. Middle English vestement, from Old French vestment, from Latin vestīmentum, from vestīre, to clothe, from vestis, garment; see vest.

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  1. Formerly also vestiment, vestament; from Middle English vestement, from Old French vestement, F. vêtement =Spanish vestimento, masculine, vestimenta, feminine, = Portuguese vestimenta = Italian vestimento, masculine, vestimenta, feminine, from Latin vestimentum, clothing, covering, from vestire, clothe: see vest, v.
 

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