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vestment

noun as in gown

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This clerical vestment, embroidered in about 1300 in England, is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

On the wall hung a piece of an ecclesiastical vestment, red and embroidered with gold.

They are but secular things after all; the things that are eternal reach deeper than creed or vestment.

Amphibalus, am-fib′a-lus, n. an ecclesiastical vestment like the chasuble.

This mode lasted some time; for in 1538, Barbara Mason bequeathed to a church a “vestment of green silk beaten with gold.”

Then just in front of them the priest in his white vestment, standing exposed, and just baldly beginning an address.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vestment, such as: frock, garb, robe, stole, tunic, and alb.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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