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Meanings of vesture in English

Portuguese
roupa
Catalan
indumentària
Spanish
vestuario
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A covering designed to be worn on a person's body.

        roupa
        Usage of vesture in English
        1
        She shall be brought unto the King in a vesture of needlework.
        Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts
        2
        Not one of these pages but served in a vesture of ermine.
        Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut
        3
        The foot-hills approach the river, crowned with a vesture of evergreen pines.
        The Discovery of Yellowstone Park / Journal of the Washburn Expe...
        4
        I threw off my green vesture, and presented myself for the struggle.
        Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
        5
        Then the queen dealt out gold and vesture, silk and precious stones.
        The Nibelungenlied
        6
        With the like colour of vesture did St. John the Evangelist, Apoc.
        Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
        7
        They carried their vesture down to them, and were busy till eventide.
        The Fall of the Nibelungs
        8
        Must the fairy herself-Euphrosyne-cometosuch a muddy vesture in the end?
        Delia Blanchflower
        9
        She was clad in no vesture of gold, but in sober black velvet.
        In the Days of Poor Richard
        10
        They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
        11
        They lparted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete / The Challoner Revision
        12
        Though pure, he looks out through the vesture of the mind.
        The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man
        13
        Their blackened limbs emerging from the scantiest of vesture, the actors surpassed themselves.
        South Wind
        14
        They came in proud array, bringing harness and vesture with them.
        The Fall of the Nibelungs
        15
        The host was well beseen with five hundred men with steeds and vesture.
        The Nibelungenlied
        16
        Save for this vesture the light of illusion fell from him.
        AE in the Irish Theosophist
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