vesture
Plural: vestures
Noun
- something that covers or cloaks like a garment
- "fields in a vesture of green"
- a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
- A covering of, or like, clothing.
Verb
Verb Forms: vestured, vesturing, vestures
- To clothe or array someone in garments.
- provide or cover with a cloak
- To clothe.
Examples
- He tried to vesture his simple words with complex prefixes, hoping for more points.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English vesture (noun) and vesturen (verb), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French vesteüre, from Vulgar Latin vestītūra (“clothing”), from Latin vestītus, perfect passive participle of vestiō (“to clothe”), from vestis (“garment”).
Synonyms
article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wear, wearable
Scrabble Score: 10
vesture: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordvesture: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
vesture: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary