vesture

1. 1.

   provide or cover with a cloak

   Broaderdress

Other forms of vesture

plural

vestures·

past tense

vestured·

present participle

vesturing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vesture

What does vesture mean?

vesture means "something that covers or cloaks like a garment". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vesture?

vesture has 2 syllables: ve-sture. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for vesture?

Close synonyms include clothing, article of clothing, wear, wearable, habiliment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vesture a common word?

vesture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.