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

Well pleas'd him their fair vesture, and well their armor sheen, Yet sure the like he never in Burgundy had seen.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture dost thou fold them up.

From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland

Sansculottism, belief in the rights of man, stript of all the conventional vestures and badges by which alone, and without any other ground of right, one man maintains an ascendency over another.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Erelong these outward trappings, these visible treasures, these earthly vanities, these arrayed armies, these adorned vestures, these proud and overweening souls, all shall pass into the confines of the grave, as though into that box.

From The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh

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

Each of the figures had, as the inscription said, "a writing on their vestures which nobody knew".

From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

The Mahometans use long loose vestures both of silk and cloth, most having hose or trowsers of cotton, and white shoes or slippers.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

The play opened by the entrance of the chorus, white vestured and gold filleted, under the leadership of Miss Kinnaird, whose fine gestures and rhythmic movements were quite admirable. 

From Reviews by Oscar Wilde

One high torch sidewise worried by the gust Sunned that lorn den of hunger, death and rust, And one tall damsel vaguely vestured, fair With shadowy hair, poised on the rocky stair.

From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

"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

To the north and east are the Ochil hills, "vestured" in blue, and looking down upon fertile fields, umbrageous woods, and stately mansions.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull