Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to vesture or dress.
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Examples
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I confess to an almost religious veneration for trailing drapery, and I pin my vestural faith with unflinching obstinacy to sweeping petticoats.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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Tissue of all Tissues, the only real Tissue, should have been quite overlooked by Science, -- the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; which Man's Soul wears as its outmost wrappage and overall; wherein his whole other Tissues are included and screened, his whole Faculties work, his whole Self lives, moves, and has its being?
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Continuing our look at some of the unique vestural customs and items to be found in the Church, this one was inspired by a wonderful book that an Oratorian friend showed to me.
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