Synonyms for vestment
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : vest-muh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɛst mənt |
Top 10 synonyms for vestment Other synonyms for the word vestment
Définition of vestment
Origin :- c.1300, from Old French vestment (French vêtement), from Latin vestimentum "clothing, clothes," from vestire "to clothe" (see wear).
- noun gown
- The Queen, at her coronation, is said to wear a Roman Catholic vestment, is that a sham?
- Extract from : « Loss and Gain » by John Henry Newman
- Just as Karl opened the door, the priest put on his vestment and began to say prayers.
- Extract from : « Childhood » by Leo Tolstoy
- The bishop was to wear a rochet, a surplice or albe, and a cope or vestment.
- Extract from : « The Heritage of Dress » by Wilfred Mark Webb
- This is what monks and friars do now; they put the vestment over the habit.
- Extract from : « The Lives of the Saints, Volume 1 (of 16) » by Sabine Baring-Gould
- "It's all as one, and just as sure as if the priest had on the vestment," was the reply.
- Extract from : « The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, And His Man Mark Antony O'Toole » by W. H. Maxwell
- Item, one vestment of blewe velvett with a cope to the same.
- Extract from : « Bell's Cathedrals: The Church of St. Martin Canterbury » by C. F. Routledge
- His singing-gown was a vestment, and he learnt its fashioning at college.
- Extract from : « The Life of Francis Thompson » by Everard Meynell
- At his death the pope bequeathed this vestment to the cathedral of his native town.
- Extract from : « Needlework As Art » by Marian Alford
- The shepherd, be it remarked, has on a vestment peculiar to Blake.
- Extract from : « William Blake » by Irene Langridge
- You are forgetting that the petticoat is a vestment unknown in China.
- Extract from : « The Haunted Pajamas » by Francis Perry Elliott
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