Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
vestment .
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- noun obsolete
Clothing ;clothes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Stoles and in a religious habit, whereof I am not forbidden to speake, considering that many persons saw me at that time: there I was commanded to stand upon a seate of wood, which stood in the middle of the temple, before the figure and remembrance of the goddesse; my vestiment was of fine linnen, covered and embroidered with flowers.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Badsworth Church, - Badsworth Barn we calls it, - for'tain't nowt but a barn which Mr. Leveson keeps 'Igh as' Igh with a bit o 'tinsel an' six candles, though it's the mis'ablest place ye ever set eyes on, an '' e do look a caution 'isself with what' e calls a vestiment
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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Badsworth Church, - Badsworth Barn we calls it, - for'tain't nowt but a barn which Mr. Leveson keeps 'Igh as' Igh with a bit o 'tinsel an' six candles, though it's the mis'ablest place ye ever set eyes on, an '' e do look a caution 'isself with what' e calls a vestiment
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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Badsworth Church, - Badsworth Barn we calls it, - for'tain't nowt but a barn which Mr. Leveson keeps 'Igh as' Igh with a bit o 'tinsel an' six candles, though it's the mis'ablest place ye ever set eyes on, an '' e do look a caution 'isself with what' e calls a vestiment
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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Stoles and in a religious habit, whereof I am not forbidden to speake, considering that many persons saw me at that time: there I was commanded to stand upon a seate of wood, which stood in the middle of the temple, before the figure and remembrance of the goddesse; my vestiment was of fine linnen, covered and embroidered with flowers.
The Golden Asse 1566
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'ave to purcess an' vestiment by 'isself, for Weircombe wont' elp 'im.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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