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plural vestures
A covering of, or like, clothing. quotations examples
His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley
It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.
1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine
third-person singular simple present vestures, present participle vesturing, simple past and past participle vestured
(archaic) To clothe.