Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vesture"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vesture \Ves"ture\ (?; 135), n. [OF. vesture, vesteure, F.
v[^e]ture, LL. vestitura, from L. vestire to clothe, dress.
See {Vest}, v. t., and cf. {Vestiture}.]
1. A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel;
vestment; covering; envelope. --Piers Plowman.
Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem.
--Milton.
Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a
vesture of plants. --Bentley.
There polished chests embroidered vestures graced.
--Pope.
2. (O. Eng. Law)
(a) The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which
land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre.
(b) Seizin; possession.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vesture
n : covering designed to be worn on a person's body [syn: {clothing},
{clothes}, {apparel}, {wearing apparel}, {wear}, {article
of clothing}]
v : provide or cover with vesture
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