Vestment Definition

vĕstmənt
vestments
noun
A garment; robe; gown; esp., an official robe or gown.
Webster's New World
Any of the garments, esp. the outer robe, worn by officiants and their assistants, choir members, etc. during certain services and rites.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
vestment
Plural:
vestments

Origin of Vestment

  • Middle English vestement from Old French vestment from Latin vestīmentum from vestīre to clothe from vestis garment vest

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin vestimentum

    From Wiktionary

Vestment Sentence Examples

  • In the East as the West the vestment is specially associated with the ritual of the Eucharist.

  • The word mutzen, to dock, cut off, which first appears in the 14th century, does not help much, though the name of another vestment akin to the almuce - the mozzetta - has been by some traced to it through the Ital.

  • It is not in the East so specifically a eucharistic vestment as in the West, but is worn at other solemn functions besides the liturgy, e.g.

  • In the Armenian and Coptic rites the vestment is often elaborately embroidered; in the other rites the only ornament is a cross high in the middle of the back, save in the case of bishops of the Orthodox Church, whose sticharia are ornamented with two vertical red stripes (7rorayof, " rivers").

  • Lastly, the mitre, though a liturgical vestment, differs from the others in that it is never worn when the bishop addresses the Almighty in prayer - e.g.

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