vesture

"I give him this vesture off my own body," said the king.

I threw off my green vesture and presented myself for the struggle.

- it ought to be of some color that will contrast with your vesture.

The very Truth has to change its vesture, from time to time; and be born again.

If clothing is a language, vesture is an archaic form.

This form of everyday vesture, common up until the 1960s, is now almost extinct.

Then he became a hobo again-but of a different and worse vesture than before.

There seemed, however, something subtly awry with this vesture.

Trustworthiness - the "goodliest vesture in the sight of God".

He placed upon her the ornament of justice, and gave her a vesture glittering with many virtues.

Close your eyes and picture mosaics from Ravenna and you have the pattern book for all liturgical vesture.

Mr. Boylan said he would like to design vesture for all sorts of settings.

The sins of the damned are felt by them as a vesture of intolerable insults from which they cannot escape.

In latter years, this vesture was more symbolic than practical, and since the mid-twentieth century it has fallen out of favour.

It is because of the scarlet color of cardinals' vesture that the bird of the same name has become known as such.

Our Lady wants us to resemble her not only in our outward vesture but, far more, in heart and spirit.

Madam, with your pardon, I kiss your vesture.

Kind souls, what weep you when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded?

Contemporary choir robes and other expressions of lay vesture are inspired by, but remain distinct from, the Geneva gown.

The whole is like a revel of dead men, a revel with splendid vesture and half-witted faces.

An inserted verse in an earlier passage says of Gaidel: "green were his arms and his vesture".

As time went on, the use of mantles of a particular color and style came to be established as specific monastic vesture.

A torturer's vesture.

Phoebus, arrayed in a purple vesture, sat on a throne, which glittered as with diamonds.

The soul must be freed from its material surrounding, the "muddy vesture of decay," by an ascetic habit of life.