Definitions for vesture

vesture ves·ture

Spelling: [ves-cher]
IPA: /ˈvɛs tʃər/

Vesture is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in vesture (eerstuv).

Definitions for vesture

noun

  1. Law. everything growing on and covering the land, with the exception of trees. any such covering, as grass or wheat.
  2. Archaic. clothing; garments. something that covers like a garment; covering.

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to clothe or cover.

Origin of vesture

1300-50; Middle English Anglo-French; Old French vesteure Vulgar Latin *vestītūra, equivalent to Latin vestīt(us), past participle of vestīre (see vest) + -ūra

Examples for vesture

The difference, however, is in the vesture that the esthetic ideal assumes.

All that he does, and brings to pass, is the vesture of a Thought.

It was love which made Him assume the vesture of human flesh.

They differ widely in vesture; yet look at them intrinsically.

Never had the garb of respectability been so battered into the vesture of disrepute.

He has spent every energy of his life here, in building the vesture.

And over herself she dropped a vesture of joy to greet him when he should step forth.

To one side of it the farms lay, brown and gold in their autumn vesture.

Insulted by a lazy ribald With idle pipe and vesture piebald?

All that he does and brings to pass is the vesture of a book.

Word Value for vesture
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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