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Vesta

[ves-tuh] / ˈvɛs tə /


NOUN
lares and penates
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Going all out, I once tried to go to a fancy-dress party as a Swan Vesta matchbox, wearing an elaborate cardboard contraption painted with a lot of time and effort.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

The day after the Palisades fire broke out, luxury staging company Vesta began manufacturing beds around the clock.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

At 500km long, the star is about the same size as Vesta - the second-largest asteroid in our solar system.

From BBC • Feb. 29, 2024

One, Project Vesta, in 2022 spread an alkaline mineral called olivine on a Long Island beach to test whether that would result in more alkaline waters as waves wash the material out to sea.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 30, 2023

A flame, pure as the fire of Vesta, burns for thee in her bosom, and would waste her life, should folly and caprice overcloud thy soul to the refusing her favour.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas