vesture
Example Sentences
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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
Such plenty of rich vesture never sumpters bore.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
And with the mounting ascent I became unconscious of my corporeal vesture.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
