vestiture

plural vestitures

1. countableuncountablebiologyThe hairs of plants, invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole.

   Phycosecids are small, ovate, convex beetles with a prognathous head, partly covered by a semicircular projection of the pronotum and a dorsal vestiture of whitish scales or scalelike setae.

   2013, Adam Slipinski, Australian Beetles Volume 1: Morphology, Classification and Keys

2. countablerareuncountableInvestiture (of a person with a specific role, powers etc.).
3. archaiccountableliteraryuncountableClothes, clothing.

   Toward the end of the second album the photography burst into color to celebrate the vivid vestiture of her adolescent molts.

   1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 41