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Benedict, in contrast, wore the vesture like a uniform, emphasizing his notion of the papacy not as a glamorous appointment but as the humble, humbling job of leading the Catholic Church.

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Against that backdrop, the shameless price-gouging policy of Shrekli’s latest vesture, Turing, starts to make a sick sort of market sense.

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Modern thought leaders are like secular clergy, convening gatherings and delivering sermons that are really just moral pep-talks dressed up in TED-style vesture.

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The music-master was a young man, thin and clean, whose bright silk waistcoats belied the gravity of the rest of his vesture, which was black and brown.

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The Vestal Virgins were further distinguished by a vesture of pure white linen, with a purple border and a wide purple mantle.

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