vesture
Example Sentences
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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.
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
In general their beards and heads are shauen, and they weare one sole vesture, without making any difference, according vnto the colour of their religion.
From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de
But it is an acknowledged truth, that the longer we have worn our earthly vesture, the dearer becomes the thin and faded remnant.
From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Lee, Eliza Buckminster
