vestiment
English
Etymology
A variant of vestment influenced by its etymon Latin vestīmentum (from vestiō (“to clothe”)).
Noun
vestiment (plural vestiments)
- (obsolete) Clothing, clothes, especially ecclesiastical.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- As well by view of that his vestiment, / As by his modest semblant that no evill ment.
Middle French
Noun
vestiment m (plural vestiments)
- alternative form of vestement
Old French
Noun
vestiment oblique singular, m (oblique plural vestimenz or vestimentz, nominative singular vestimenz or vestimentz, nominative plural vestiment)
- alternative form of vestement