vestment

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VEST'MENT, noun [Latin vestimentum, from vestio, to clothe.] A garment; some part of clothing or dress; especially some part of outer clothing; but it is not restricted to any particular garment. The sculptor could not give vestments suitable to the quality of the persons represented.
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