VESTMENT


Meaning of VESTMENT in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A layer of brown dust began to cover the white vestments of the priests.

Church services too became more elaborate and ornamental with the lavish use of incense and ever richer vestments.

He journeyed without royal vestments, wearing a disguise to escape detection and perhaps to save money.

He was dressed in radiant white vestments and his hands were folded on his chest.

His meals were always ready, his clothes clean and pressed, and his vestments for the Sunday service were immaculate.

Old vestments lay scattered on top, their colours faded, the material no longer springy soft.

Slugs would drag along the bathroom floor, trailing their vestments of brown slime.

They had put on their vestments in an old farmhouse across from the field.

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