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vestiment

vestiment noun: clothing, clothes, especially ecclesiastical.

Noun

vestiment (plural vestiments)

  1. (obsolete) Clothing, clothes, especially ecclesiastical.
    • As well by view of that his vestiment, / As by his modest semblant that no evill ment.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of vestiment

pluralvestiments

Origin of vestiment

A variant of vestment influenced by its etymon Latin vestīmentum (from vestiō (“to clothe”)).

Words formed from vestiment

Questions about vestiment

What does vestiment mean?
Vestiment means clothing, clothes, especially ecclesiastical.
What part of speech is vestiment?
Vestiment is a noun.
What is the plural of vestiment?
The plural of vestiment is vestiments.

Words near vestiment in the dictionary

  1. Vestigian
  2. vestigiary
  3. vestigium
  4. vestigy
  5. vestimeniferan
  6. vestiment
  7. vestimental
  8. vestimentary
  9. vestimentiferan
  10. vestimentiferans
  11. vestiments

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