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vestment

UK/ˈvɛstmənt/US/ˈvɛstmənt/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,922 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: vestments

A vestment is a robe worn by a priest at a service. Put on the vestments, ceremonial vestments, a vestment cupboard.

The colour changes with the church season, so purple in Lent and white at Easter, and the pattern is fixed centuries deep. The word is a relative of vest and of investiture, all from the Latin for clothing.

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Definitions of vestment

  1. 1nounvestmentA robe worn by a priest at a service.C2

    “The priest put on his white vestments before the Easter service.”

vestment is a robe.

Where it comes from

Latin vestimentum means clothing, from vestire, to clothe.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *wes-

  2. Latin

    vestīmentum

  3. Old French

    vestement

  4. Middle English

    vestement

  5. English, today

    vestment

From Middle English vestement, vestment, from Old French vestement, from Latin vestīmentum. by surface analysis, vest + -ment. Compare French vêtement.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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vestment in the wild

  • In the Eastern Orthodox Church and in the Eastern Catholic Churches, the equivalent vestment is the phelonion.

    Chasuble

  • Traditional Solemn Mass vestment sets include matching chasuble, dalmatic, and tunicle.

    Dalmatic

  • The Orarion is the distinguishing vestment of the deacon and subdeacon in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches and Eastern Catholic Churches.

    Orarion

  • Only at a later period did the word orarium / orarion come to be applied to a vestment worn by the clergy.

    Orarion

  • A rochet () is a white vestment generally worn by Latin Catholic and Anglican bishops in choir dress.

    Rochet

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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