vesture

Benedict, in contrast, wore the vesture like a uniform, emphasizing his notion of the papacy not as a glamorous appointment but as the humble, humbling job of leading the Catholic Church.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022

Gazing up at the stars, he muses, “Such harmony is in immortal souls,/But whilst this muddy vesture of decay/Doth grossly enclose it, we cannot hear it.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011

The music-master was a young man, thin and clean, whose bright silk waistcoats belied the gravity of the rest of his vesture, which was black and brown.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

He found her in the vesture that every day she wore; Her dames stood by in raiment all work'd and broider'd o'er.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

They seemed really mountains and not hills, receiving an Alpine tone with their wintry vesture.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

The Phrygian queen to her rich wardrobe went, Where treasured odours breathed a costly scent; There lay the vestures of no vulgar art, Sidonian maids embroider’d every part.

From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford

Pour la bonne diligence For the good diligence   Quil faict a peuple That he doth to the peple 4 De liurer leurs vestures To deliuere their clothes   Au iour quil a promys.

From Dialogues in French and English by Henry Bradley

And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.

From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Charles Henry Mackintosh

The offering of the vestures vnto the sepulchres.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

And it happened, as they were amazed thereat: lo two men stood by them, in shining vestures.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

It was vestured all about with Godly piety.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee

Mayhap book and bell and organ peal and vestured choir and high ceremony of the church may be more solemn; but I, who speak the truth from this very knowledge, think it could not be.

From The Way of a Man by Emerson Hough

But these great Beasts, vestured in angry orange, three stings from which—so 't was averred—would kill a horse, these were of a different kidney, and their warning drone suggested prudence and retreat.

From The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame

"Crowned with olive over a white veil a Lady appeared to me, vestured in hue of living flame under a green mantle."

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by John T. (John Theodore) Slattery

By the afternoon train came Adrian, impeccably vestured and feverish with excitement.

From Jaffery by William John Locke