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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biology The hairs of plants, 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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From Medieval Latin vestitura, from Latin vestire.

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