Meanings of gorgeous vestments in English

Priests in gorgeous vestments were walking quickly through the streets.

Long white surplices, grave and seemly, gave place to gorgeous vestments and embroidered pluvials.

The canons of the church followed in their more gorgeous vestments, and finally the officiating clergy.

The altars and images were all destroyed, the rich furniture and gorgeous vestments appropriated to private use.

I went into many churches, where I saw obviously famished priests in gorgeous vestments, and a congregation enormously devout.

Preceding her was Agon, the High Priest, arrayed in his most gorgeous vestments, and on either side were other priests.

In spring and summer the ground was white with daisies and in the autumn it donned gorgeous vestments of golden-rod and sumach.

The altars and images were all destroyed; the rich furniture, the sacred vessels, and the gorgeous vestments were appropriated to private use.

The altars and images were destroyed, while the rich furniture and the gorgeous vestments of the priests were appropriated by the rovers.

As the great organ pealed, and as I watched the priests officiating at the altar in their gorgeous vestments, I forgot my own sorrows.

So, with all the pomp of ecclesiastical ceremony, with gorgeous vestments, lighted tapers, and clouds of incense, the new building was dedicated to God.