vesture

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.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022

Gazing up at the stars, he muses, “Such harmony is in immortal souls,/But whilst this muddy vesture of decay/Doth grossly enclose it, we cannot hear it.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011

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.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

And they parted his raiment and cast lots, that the Scripture might be fulfilled which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots.

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Lady Mary Ross

Yea, thy love shall enfold the soul which thou lovest: it shall be unto him a wedding garment and a vesture of blessing.

From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland

Bunker Bean, the divinely credulous, now daily arrayed himself in royal vestures, set a well-fashioned crown upon the brow of him and strode forth, sceptre in hand.

From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson

And it happened, as they were amazed thereat: lo two men stood by them, in shining vestures.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

The nation has stripped itself of the old vestures; patriots of the type soon to be called Girondins have the problem of governing this naked nation.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

From the castle they goe to a gate of the citie called Bab-Nassera, without the which standes a Mosquita, and therein they lay vp the sayd vestures very well kept and guarded.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.

From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Charles Henry Mackintosh

The play opened by the entrance of the chorus, white vestured and gold filleted, under the leadership of Miss Kinnaird, whose fine gestures and rhythmic movements were quite admirable. 

From Reviews by Oscar Wilde

By the afternoon train came Adrian, impeccably vestured and feverish with excitement.

From Jaffery by William John Locke

But these great Beasts, vestured in angry orange, three stings from which—so 'twas averred—would kill a horse, these were of a different kidney, and their dreadful drone suggested prudence and retreat.

From The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame

But his appeal is vestured in ideal deference.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee

An interview with Tom Bakewell had put him on the track, and now a momentary survey of the table, and its white- vestured cake, made him whistle.

From Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4 by George Meredith