Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The manufacture or preparation of cloth.
- noun Investiture.
- noun In zoology, the hairs, scales, etc., covering a surface: as, the vestiture of the thorax of an insect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Investiture.
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- noun biology The
hairs ofplants ,invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole. - noun rare
Investiture (of a person with a specific role, powers etc.). - noun
Clothes ,clothing .
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- noun an archaic term for clothing
Etymologies
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Examples
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The chaste trees had been incontinently stripped of their decent white vestiture, leaving their limbs naked and bare.
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When a wreck happens he becomes a potentate in pyjamas, and with his dusky wives, dressed in bright vestiture, fares sumptuously.
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The contrast between the robes of concealment and her present revelatory vestiture, more suitable for a property girl, must be particularly, and shockingly, dramatic to her, who knew her own antecedents and station.
Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986
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Nude - us: naked: a surface devoid of hair, scales or other vestiture.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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T.n minutes later, when Coach Corridan and the Gold and Green squad climbed the bluff to the field back of Camp Bannister, for morning signal drill, their last memory was of T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., arrayed in radiant vestiture, his chair tilted against the bunkhouse -- the chords of the banjo, and his foghorn voice drifting to them on the warm September air:
T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice
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Nudity: the state of being naked or bare of vestiture.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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In nature, variety spreads a curious interest over all her vestiture.
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Bald: without hair or other surface vestiture: see bare.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Naked: not clothed: lacking vestiture: a pupa when not inclosed in a cocoon or other covering.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Italy several collections favouring the reform of Gregory VII and supporting the Holy See in the in vestiture strife; some of the authors utilized for their works the Roman archives.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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