vestiment

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noun

Clothing, clothes, especially ecclesiastical.

OriginLatin vestīmentum →
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Meanings

nounvestiment (plural vestiments)

plural vestiments

  1. obsoleteClothing, clothes, especially ecclesiastical.

    As well by view of that his vestiment, / As by his modest semblant that no evill ment.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinvestīmentum
  2. Englishvestiment

A variant of vestment influenced by its etymon Latin vestīmentum (from vestiō (“to clothe”)).

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APA

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MLA

“vestiment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vestiment. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vestiment,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vestiment.

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