Definition

1. Noun:

   • A covering or garment; clothing: "Vesture" refers to something that is worn on the body, such as clothing or apparel. This usage is now chiefly poetic or archaic.
   • Something that covers or envelops like a garment: "Vesture" can also describe a natural covering or layer that cloaks something, such as vegetation covering the land.

2. Verb:

   • To clothe or cover with or as if with a garment: The verb form means to provide with clothing or to drape something with a covering.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:

  • The knight's rich vesture was adorned with gold. (The knight's rich clothing was adorned with gold.)
  • In spring, the hills are clothed in a vesture of wildflowers. (In spring, the hills are clothed in a covering of wildflowers.)

• Verb:

  • The poet spoke of night vesturing the world in darkness. (The poet spoke of night clothing the world in darkness.)

Advanced Usage

• "Vesture of authority": A metaphorical phrase describing the symbols or appearance of power and office.
  • He assumed the vesture of authority with great solemnity. (He assumed the symbols of authority with great solemnity.)

Variants and Related Words

• Vest (verb): To place authority, property, or rights in the possession or control of a person or group. (Note: This is a distinct legal term, not a direct variant of "vesture" in the clothing sense).
• Investiture (noun): The formal ceremony of conferring the authority and symbols of an office; related through the shared root concerning clothing or endowment.

Synonyms

• Noun (clothing): Garments, attire, raiment, apparel, garb.
• Noun (covering): Mantle, cloak, covering, blanket, shroud.
• Verb: Clothe, dress, robe, drape, envelop.

Related Phrases

• "The vesture of mortality": A poetic or literary phrase referring to the human body as the clothing of the soul.
  • The ancient text described the soul shedding its vesture of mortality. (The ancient text described the soul shedding its clothing of mortality.)

Noun

1. a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
2. something that covers or cloaks like a garment
   • fields in a vesture of green

Verb

1. provide or cover with a cloak