Thesaurus: vesture

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1. v. t. A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope.
2. v. t. The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre.
3. v. t. Seizin; possession.
4. n. something that covers or cloaks like a garment
5. n. a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
6. v. provide or cover with a cloak
7. 1. A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope. Piers Plowman. Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem. Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope. 2. (O. Eng. Law) (a) The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre. (b) Seizin; possession.
8. n. something that covers or cloaks like a garment v. provide or cover with a cloak