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vesture

/ˈvɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/

vesture noun: a covering of, or like, clothing.

Noun

vesture (plural vestures)

  1. A covering of, or like, clothing.
    • 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.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    • 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

vesture (third-person singular simple present vestures, present participle vesturing, simple past and past participle vestured)

  1. (archaic) To clothe.

vesture meaning in Tamil and Urdu

vesture in Tamil

வெஸ்டர்ட்

vesture in Urdu

لباس, پوشاک

Forms of vesture

Noun
pluralvestures
Verb
third-person singular presentvestures
present participlevesturing
past participlevestured
pastvestured

Origin of vesture

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”).

Words formed from vesture

Questions about vesture

What does vesture mean?
Vesture means a covering of, or like, clothing.
What is vesture in Tamil?
Vesture in Tamil is வெஸ்டர்ட். See Vesture meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vesture?
Vesture can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce vesture?
Vesture is pronounced /ˈvɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of vesture?
The plural of vesture is vestures.

Words near vesture in the dictionary

  1. vests
  2. vests in interest
  3. vestuaries
  4. vestuary
  5. vestural
  6. vesture
  7. vestured
  8. vesturer
  9. vesturers
  10. vestures
  11. vesturing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vesture (page history and authors); vesture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vesture (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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